Gore Vidal Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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

• There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Lying, War

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

• 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

• If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

  Gore Vidal

  Lying, Writing, People

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

• 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

• Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Lying, Truman

  "Can They Stand the Heat?The Art of the Insult" by Mary Blume, International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 1998.

• A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

  Gore Vidal

  Lying, Believe, Numbers

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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