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Rod Serling Quotes

Total quotes: 31
“If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.”
— Rod Serling, Rod Serling | About Rod Serling | American Masters | PBS
Tagged: atheism, God
“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.”
— Rod Serling, As I Knew Him
Tagged: Writing, Social Criticism, Conscience
“The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.”
— Rod Serling, Rod Serling- Wikipedia
Tagged: Obscenity, Narcissism, Apathy
“Television is very much like the weather: Much can be said of it, but very damn little can be done about it.”
— Rod Serling, Rod Serling speaking at UCLA 11/11/1966
Tagged: Television, Weather
“I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.”
— Rod Serling, Notable American Unitarians 1936-1961
Tagged: ficion, Democrats, republican, Writing, Martians
“As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die just because the man dies.”
— Rod Serling, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone
Tagged: Legend, Immortality
“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.”
— Rod Serling, Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone
Tagged: state, dignity, Ideology, Humanism
“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can’t allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”
— Rod Serling, TV(The Book)
Tagged: Apathy, Anarchy, humanity
“You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing asunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.”
— Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone(1959) s03e16 Episode Script | SS
Tagged: Shock
“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible.”
— Rod Serling, The new sci-fi
Tagged: Fantasy, Science Fiction
“...a medium best suited to illumine and dramatize the issues of the times has its product pressed into a mold, painted lily-white, and has its dramatic teeth yanked out one by one.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Writing, Television
“I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.”
— Rod Serling, Twilight Zone Encyclopedia
Tagged: Self-awareness, Self-hatred
“I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.”
— Rod Serling, Western Culture, Movies
“According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative—and woman’s—to create their own particular and private hell.”
— Rod Serling, Night Call- Wikipedia
Tagged: Bible, Heaven, God, Hell
“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”
— Rod Serling, The Great Forgetting
Tagged: Magic, Sorcery, Human Spirit
“Rest in peace, you age of innocence—you beautiful, serene, carefree, pre-Pearl Harbor, long summer night. We’ll never see your likes again.”
— Rod Serling, Black Belt
Tagged: Innocence, Summer, Pearl Harbor
“There won’t be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you, Martin, that this is the wonderful time. Now! Here! That’s all. That’s all I wanted to tell you.”
— Rod Serling, A quote from Stories from the Twilight Zone
Tagged: Merry-go-rounds, Cotton Candy
“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Brainwashing, Thinking
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
— Rod Serling, A quote by Rod Serling
Tagged: Writing, Acting
“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Survival, Second Amendment
“Hollywood's a great place to live...if you're a grapefruit.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Hollywood
“The first sale, that's the one that comes with magic.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Salesmanship, Magic
“Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.”
— Rod Serling, Spaceships and Politics
Tagged: Justice, Retribution
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.”
— George Taylor, Planet of the Apes
Tagged: Paws, Stinking, damned, dirty, Ape
“This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. Next stop: The Twilight Zone.”
— Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
Tagged: Imagination, bizarre, Fantasy
“A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ—but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone—look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.”
— Rod Serling, I Am the Night—Color Me Black- Wikipedia
Tagged: Hate, virus, Twilight Zone
“I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.”
— Rod Serling, As I Knew Him
Tagged: Christmas
“I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.”
— Rod Serling, As I Knew Him
Tagged: humanity, Politics, Civic Engagement
“If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi—do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.”
— Rod Serling, A quote by Rod Serling
Tagged: Writing, Labor, Working Class, Pride
“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.”
— Rod Serling, Deaths-Head Revisited- Wikipedia
Tagged: Holocaust, Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, History
“It's simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority, the needs of human beings must come first. Poverty is here and now. Hunger is here and now. Racial tension is here and now. Pollution is here and now. These are the things that scream for a response. And if we don't listen to that scream—and if we don't respond to it—we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us—or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name.”
— Rod Serling
Tagged: Poverty, Pollution, Hunger, Racial Tension
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