Gore Vidal Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Class, People

  "Matters of Fact and Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 280), 1978.

• Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
  American political elite from the beginning.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Genius

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

• USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Men, Nbc News

• It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

  Gore Vidal

  Genius, Literature, Warhol

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

  Gore Vidal

  Drama, Writing, Genius

  1956 In the New York Times,17 Jun.

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