# Quote — Gore Vidal, Homage to Daniel Shays

> I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

- Author: [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md)
- Book: [Homage to Daniel Shays](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/homage-to-daniel-shays.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Homage_to_Daniel_Shays_:_Collected_Essays_(1972)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/homage-to-daniel-shays/i-am-at-heart

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> The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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> The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.

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> At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

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