Gore Vidal Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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”

• The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, Evil

• Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.

  Gore Vidal

  Stupid, Men, Play

• The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

  Gore Vidal

  United States, Purpose, Hawthorne

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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