Gore Vidal Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

  Gore Vidal

  Beautiful, Four, Common

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 18, 2011

• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

• A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Political, Language

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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