James Rozoff

James Rozoff

"Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one."
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"Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one."
James Rozoff
"We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice."
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
"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
"Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us."
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
"It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become."
James Rozoff
"If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?"
James Rozoff
"There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound."
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
"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
"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
"Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed."
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
"The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own."
James Rozoff
"Stories are like DNA, they shape the culture that they’re a part of. A society is not a society without its own unique stories. But we allow machines to make our stories, nowadays, or at least to tell them. We allow things to shape our understanding of who we are. We are entertained, not nurtured. We are given Twinkies for our mind, things that amuse but do not enlighten. It tickles our taste buds, but it does not enrich us."
James Rozoff
"I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure."
James Rozoff
"A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated."
James Rozoff
"Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still."
James Rozoff
"Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it."
James Rozoff
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