Gore Vidal Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Kings, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Lying, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 03, 2014

• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Lying, Son

• Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Advice, Secret

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2008.

• Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Daddy, Giving

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.82, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

• When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Class, People

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

• I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Magazines, Time Magazine

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

• I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Father, Mean

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

• A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Father, Writing

• Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Two, America

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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