Rod Serling Quotes

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

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

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

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.

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.

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.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

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

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.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

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.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

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

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.