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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
DonÂ’t call me a spokesman for bisexuality. ItÂ’s like being called a spokesman for blue eyes. It doesnÂ’t mean anything. Everyone is bisexual....I donÂ’t understand the obsession with sex. Norman Mailer often sounds like the deranged commander of an American Legion post, particularly about women, whom he doesnÂ’t like very much. He has made politics out of sex.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Asked who was the worst president, he responded, Oh, there were so many of them. Certainly the silliest was Reagan. The most empty. [George H.W.] Bush is in the running for the worst.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
TV is now so desperately hungry for material that theyÂ’re scraping the top of the barrel.
Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.