Rod Serling Quotes

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

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

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

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.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

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 tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

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

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Race is set against race, party against party, religion against religion, neighbor against neighbor, and child against parent

Devils are worse than Indians.

It is normal to hate what we fear, and it happens frequently, though not always, that we fear what we hate. I think it may be taken as the rule among primitive men, that they both fear and hate whatever is unfamiliar.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

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

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.

Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.