Gore Vidal Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

• Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Enemy, Democracy

• Never offend an enemy in a small way.

  Gore Vidal

  Enemy, Way

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

• Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

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  People, Enemy, United States

  Gore Vidal (2001). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, Broadway Business

• They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

  Gore Vidal

  New York, War, Lying

• One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

  Gore Vidal

  Enemy, Neighbor

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

• I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

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  War, Winning, Enemy

• I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

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  New York, People, Enemy

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

• Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, Enemy

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

• It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

  Gore Vidal

  Enemy, Curious

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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