"Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent."
― Gore Vidal
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Hope
― Gore Vidal
More From Gore Vidal
- "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."
- "The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
- "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."
More In Hope
- "Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting."― Charles Stanley
- "Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have."― Mark Cuban
- "You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order."― Mike Huckabee