Rod Serling Quotes

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Islam is a malignant cancer.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

Somebody called me a homophobe. I'm not homophobic.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'