Gore Vidal quoteGore Vidal [1925-2012]
American Novelist 
Quote rank: 101
| 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. |
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