The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDALIt is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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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.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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