Joe Hill: 77 Quotes by the Activist

Activist
1879 - 1915
77 quotes

Joe Hill, an activist (1879 - 1915), is quoted 77 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Pie, Sky, Sin and Thinking.

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Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.
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Car

Black

Sooner Or Later
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Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.
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Asks

Picks

Sin
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You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.
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Facts

Way
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The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.
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Esperanto

Language

Sin
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Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
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Fantasy

Reality

Waiting
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What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.
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Alive

Blessed

Painful
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Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.
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Giving

Matter
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I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.
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House

Tree

Waiting
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She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.
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Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die.
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Hay

Pie

Sky
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Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
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Work

Hay

Pie

Sky

Pray

Die

Get

Work Die Live
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You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
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Thinking

Want

You Think You Know
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Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
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Ass

Desire

Horror
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I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
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Blue

Mourning

Organize

Political

Rebel

Waste

Die
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Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.
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Men

Devil

Thinking
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Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.
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Gold

Matter
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You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.
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And Love

Giving

Love You
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I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.
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Color

Needed

Wall
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When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.
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Ideas

Sin

Thinking
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All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.
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Life

Together

World
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Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.
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Suffering

Understanding

Would Be
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Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
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Another Chance

Humans

Intense
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I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.
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Art

Hungry

Said
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We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.
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Flying

Red Flags

Workers
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Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
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Children

Everyday

Rest Of Your Life
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I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
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Earth

Labor

Littles
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I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
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Jobs

Children

Mean
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There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
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Devil

Guy

Hero
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The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
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Mirrors

Rearview Mirror

Way
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You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
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Fall

One Day

World
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If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
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Coal

Fire

Rakes
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Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
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Faster

Together
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I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.
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Past

Shooting

Used
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It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
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Bewildered

Ideas

Persons
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
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Ocean

Chains

Notion

Ships

Speeding

Ties

Workers

Trains

Mighty

Ship

Tie

Took
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She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.
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People

Tragic

Ugly
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Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
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Lying

May

Sunflower
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Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
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Attitude

Giving Up

Talking
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The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.
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Blood

Degrees

Three
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I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.
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Awful

People

Want
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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
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Kids

Rip

Wings
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I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.
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One Day

Stories

Writing
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Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.
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Men

Gingerbread

Hopeful
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I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.
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Made

Mistake

World
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