Quote

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

Jim Goad

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Author
Writer
Projects
Problems
Else
Someone
Project
Problem
Fundamental
Find
Fundamentals
Human
Blame
Humans
Average

More quotes by Jim Goad

Image
I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
Jim Goad
Image
Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.
Jim Goad
Image
Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a relationship or, heaven forbid, marriage.
Jim Goad
Image
Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
Jim Goad
Image
He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
Jim Goad
Image
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.
Jim Goad
Image
People can be so heartless and dirty.
Jim Goad
Image
I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
Jim Goad
Image
It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.
Jim Goad
Image
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
Jim Goad
Image
I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
Jim Goad
Image
Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
Jim Goad
Image
I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
Jim Goad
Image
It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
Jim Goad
Image
The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.
Jim Goad
Image
My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.
Jim Goad
Image
In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.
Jim Goad
Image
Liberating is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
Jim Goad
Image
As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.
Jim Goad
Image
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