The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.
Gore VidalThe world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
Gore VidalIn a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
Gore VidalIโm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you donโt. Move on and move out.
Gore Vidal