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Paddy Chayefsky Quotes

It’s always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it’s always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

– Paddy Chayefsky

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It’s always the rest of us who get broken in half.

– Paddy Chayefsky

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

– Paddy Chayefsky

I’m a man without a corporation.

– Paddy Chayefsky

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let’s not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

– Paddy Chayefsky

You don’t send a man to his death because you want a hero.

– Paddy Chayefsky

Artists don’t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it’s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

– Paddy Chayefsky

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