Apathy Quote by Paddy Chayefsky

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

— Paddy Chayefsky

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

— Paddy Chayefsky

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

— Paddy Chayefsky

It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always…

— Paddy Chayefsky

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.…

— Paddy Chayefsky

I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of…

— Paddy Chayefsky

“I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings.…

— Paddy Chayefsky

“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of…

— Paddy Chayefsky

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers,…

— Paddy Chayefsky

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If…

— Paddy Chayefsky

Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

— Paddy Chayefsky

Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers…

— Paddy Chayefsky