The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent. Gore Vidal Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. Gore Vidal Read Quote
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since. Gore Vidal Read Quote
