Gore Vidal Class Quotations

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.