410 Quotes by Joe Hill

God saves – but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later.

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

He’d possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn’t happen more often.

It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don’t they all teach that to do for others feels better than to do for yourself? That someone else’s happiness need not mean less happiness for you?

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning – organize.

You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble.

In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound together by blood with a shared set of skills and tools for consolidating power and subjugating others.

I’d netted a bachelor’s in English from Boston University, but it had done less for me, in strictly financial terms, than the eight-week course that earned me a commercial driver’s license.

People were entranced by flame and repelled by human suffering, and wasn’t that some kind of design flaw?