THERE IS A CALMNESS to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
RALPH H. BLUM
NEVER LOSE HOPE . . . The butterfly is proof that beauty can emerge from something completely falling apart. JANE LEE LOGAN
HATING PEOPLE is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
GORE VIDAL 1925-2012. “Myra Breckinridge”, “Burr”, “Lincoln”
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.
PERSUADING THE PEOPLE to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
THERE ARE A GREAT MANY PEOPLE who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American people.
YOU KNOW, I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
LOUIS ARAGON 1807-1982. “The Belles of Basel”, “Aurelien”.
REALITY is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
THERE ARE STRANGE FLOWERS OF REASON TO MATCH EACH ERROR OF THE SENSES.
CAN THE KNOWLEDGE deriving from reason ever begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
LOVE is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
WE KNOW that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
MOST PEOPLE have never known solitude . . . But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world and feel that they need never emerge.
GORE VIDAL: WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA, WE LEARN NOTHING BECAUSE WE REMEMBER NOTHING.
THE FOUR most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
APPARENTLY, ‘conspiracy stuff’ is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
REALITY is something the human race doesn’t handle very well.
AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
POLITICS is made up of two words: “Poli,” which is Greek for “many,” and “tics,” which are bloodsucking insects.
FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
TODAY’S public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
THE UNITED STATES was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven’t seen them since.
AS societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
THE PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID, BUT THEY ARE TOTALLY MISINFORMED.
HOW to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. it’s the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It’s been two hundred years at it. It’s superb.