James Rozoff Quotes

I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

~ James Rozoff

Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but mankind is busy trying to dam them up and as a result, they become stagnant. They divert the water into square swimming pools, and then add chemicals to it in order to keep it sterile.

~ James Rozoff

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

~ James Rozoff

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

~ James Rozoff

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

~ James Rozoff

Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

~ James Rozoff

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.

~ James Rozoff

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

~ James Rozoff

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

~ James Rozoff

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

~ James Rozoff

I don’t want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.

~ James Rozoff

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

~ James Rozoff

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

~ James Rozoff

There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.

~ James Rozoff

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

~ James Rozoff

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

~ James Rozoff

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.

~ James Rozoff

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

~ James Rozoff

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

~ James Rozoff

We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.

~ James Rozoff

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.

~ James Rozoff

Sometimes you just have to hold on even when you don’t believe in what you’re holding on to anymore. Sometimes you have to hold on to empty and distant memories, even if it feels like there isn’t any ‘you’ left. I think that’s what faith is all about, doing what you need to do even when the feeling isn’t there anymore.

~ James Rozoff

Nothing is taken at face value anymore, everything must be dissected. Perhaps it is the rise of advertisement over church and state. Things once spoken were spoken with strength and authority. Now they are spoken with stealth and with guile. They are spoken not to the rational mind but to the sub-conscious, the mind within the mind.

~ James Rozoff

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

~ James Rozoff