8 Gore Vidal Quotes on Power

Gore Vidal quotes on power

9. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

13. Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

14. Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

30. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the higher altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for the freedom not only to conform but to consume.

41. Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

53. Lennon was somebody who was a born enemy of those who govern the United States. He was everything they hated. So I just say that he represented life, and that is admirable; and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death, and that is a bad thing.

82. Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

83. My favorite sex fantasy is becoming president, so I can do it to two hundred million people at once.