Jim Goad Quotes & Sayings

If I'd been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I'd merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching. — Jim Goad

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way. — Jim Goad

A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America's leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much"

For now, let's accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much"

Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? — Jim Goad

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body. — Jim Goad

My hatred is diamond-hard. — Jim Goad

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time. — Jim Goad

People can be so heartless and dirty. — Jim Goad

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable. — Jim Goad

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country. — Jim Goad

What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do. — Jim Goad

[The militia experts] accuse antigoverment agitants of paranoia, yet they spin around and claim that militias speak in coded phrases, have underground bunkers, and are secretly conspiring to take over the world and enslave minorities. They say it's lunacy that men at the pentagon can conspire, yet they're certain that farmers out on the plain are plotting as we speak.

They depict the United Nations as weak und ineffectual, yet they portray raggedy-ass backwoodsmen as the world's biggest organized military threat. — Jim Goad

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up. — Jim Goad

Anyone who hides within the crowd is a coward. — Jim Goad

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. — Jim Goad

Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak. — Jim Goad

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it. — Jim Goad

The fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. — Jim Goad

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. — Jim Goad

If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit. — Jim Goad

Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who didn't mutate never became reptiles; conformist snakes never became mammals , etc. Normal Humans will remain humans, and they'll be subjugated by the digital monsters of the next few millenia. — Jim Goad

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. — Jim Goad

Under the Roman Empire, barbarians were the rural trash of their day. The word "pagan" is derived from the Latin pagus, meaning "country", and Romans used it disparagingly to describe country dwellers. Likewise, "heathen" originally meant those rural types who lived under cover of the heath. Both "pagan" and "heathen" are thus ancient verbal ancestors of "hillbilly. — Jim Goad

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life ... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison. — Jim Goad

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it. — Jim Goad

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither. — Jim Goad

There's a reason the Third World came in third. — Jim Goad

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems. — Jim Goad

Mean people suck — Jim Goad