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We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Gore Vidal
Democracy, Earth, Republic
"Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Gore Vidal
Democracy, Politics, Form
FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 21, 2014

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

Gore Vidal
Latin, Roots, Democracy
Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Gore Vidal
Views, Democracy, Want
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

Gore Vidal
Party, Political, Democracy

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

Gore Vidal
Art, Enemy, Democracy

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

Gore Vidal
People, Survival, Democracy
"Views From a Window". Book by Robert J. Stanton, Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. 1980.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

Gore Vidal
Army, Thinking, Democracy
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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