Frank Serpico Quotes

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

We like to make tough speeches, but we don't like to make tough choices.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.