Best Quotes by Rod Serling (Top 10)

  1. There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
  2. We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
  3. 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.
  4. For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
  7. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete
  8. 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.
  9. for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized
  10. 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.

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