Top 35 James Rozoff Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.”

— James Rozoff

3. “Fools are in the majority, and they never lack confidence because a fool believes that being in the majority is proof that one is right.”

— James Rozoff

4. “A solution is never as easy to find as someone to blame for the problem.”

— James Rozoff

5. “The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.”

— James Rozoff

6. “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

7. “Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.”

— James Rozoff

8. “Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.”

— James Rozoff

9. “Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.”

— James Rozoff

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

— James Rozoff

11. “Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.”

— James Rozoff

12. “Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.”

— James Rozoff

13. “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

14. “Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.”

— James Rozoff

15. “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

16. “If patriotism is a scoundrel’s last refuge, then the concept of freedom is his first sales pitch.”

— James Rozoff

17. “A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

18. “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

19. “Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.”

— James Rozoff

20. “I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.”

— James Rozoff

21. “Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there’s still something good in whatever’s left.”

— James Rozoff

22. “TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream “first amendment” and “freedom of speech”. How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?”

— James Rozoff

23. “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

24. “Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.”

— James Rozoff

25. “Art is not a diversion, it is the summit of human understanding. Literature is not the construction of a beautiful though frail glittering glass ornament. It is the creation of a prism through which we are able to see the world we live in in a way we never have before. It is not the plaything of ivory tower intellectuals nor an escapist drug for bored housewives, but the raw, pulsing stuff of life, the essence, the soul.”

— James Rozoff

26. “We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.”

— James Rozoff

27. “Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.”

— James Rozoff

28. “A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.”

— James Rozoff

29. “You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.”

— James Rozoff

30. “The media is socially liberal, economically conservative, and always pro-war.”

— James Rozoff

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

— James Rozoff

32. “Don’t punch at the darkness, be a light.”

— James Rozoff

33. “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

34. “If only money was as capable of caring about people as much as people care about money.”

— James Rozoff

35. “A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.”

— James Rozoff

36. “The fool attempts to predict the next big wave while ignoring the tide.”

— James Rozoff

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

— James Rozoff

38. “Words lift us up from the merely physical and bestial into realms that are spiritual, magical, miraculous. If there is divinity within us, it is hewn from our baser clay by words and ideas.”

— James Rozoff