Rod Serling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.
-- Rod Serling

#Moving #Twilight #Keys
This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
-- Rod Serling

#Iron #Enemy #Boots
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
-- Rod Serling

#Iron #Enemy #Logic
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

#Thinking #Cereal #Able
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
-- Rod Serling

#Children #Twilight #Prejudice
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
-- Rod Serling

#Dark #Light #Darkness
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

#Writing #Pride #Past
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
-- Rod Serling

#Men #Dislike Someone #Prejudice
Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
-- Rod Serling

#Twilight Zone
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
-- Rod Serling

#Men #Rights #Dignity
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

#Twilight #Reality #Land
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
-- Rod Serling

#Republican #Found #Democrat
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
-- Rod Serling

#Twilight #Journey #Sight
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

#Thinking #Humanity #Causes
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, 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,,then we become the gravediggers.
-- Rod Serling

#Men #Buchenwald #Dachau
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
-- Rod Serling

#Peace #Fear #Race
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

#Men #Heaven #Earth
Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.
-- Rod Serling

#Lying #Thinking #Apathy
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
-- Rod Serling

#Writing #Men #Thinking
Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.
-- Rod Serling

#Bullshit #Looks #Affliction
I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.
-- Rod Serling

#Dream #Reality #Destiny
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.
-- Rod Serling

#Twilight Zone #Ends #Explosions
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
-- Rod Serling

#Peace #Ubuntu #Prejudice
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

#Art #Views #Issues

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