410 Quotes by Joe Hill

They’re not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe.” “Isn’t that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty?

There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it’s always for their own personal psychological reasons.

Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence.

Too many people die in hospitals, and if you can’t be helped, you have to wonder why.

Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school. Schools.

She came back from the eighties to save mankind. Martha Quinn is our only hope.

It was something... the way a person’s life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

Maybe they were afraid of being quarantined. The idea of being kept from your loved ones is scarier than the sickness for a lot of people. No one wants to die alone.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good.