Taylor Rowell

“Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all. We honor no treaties. We spurn international courts. We strike unilaterally wherever we choose. We give orders to the United Nations but do not pay our dues. We complain of terrorism, yet our empire is now the greatest terrorist of all. We bomb, invade, subvert other states.”
― Gore Vidal

“I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife.”
― Gore Vidal

“Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think you have an audience of old women in front of you?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.”
― Gore Vidal