Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Love is not my bag.
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