Quotes by James Rozoff

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

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.

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 .

“Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.”