Joe Hill: Quotes about the world

Joe Hill was Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. Explore interesting quotes on world.

Joe Hill: 114 quotes15 likes

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

Source: Heart-Shaped Box

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

Source: Horns

“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”

Source: Horns

“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.”

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

Source: 20th Century Ghosts

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

“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.”

Source: 20th Century Ghosts

“Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight:
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry
Chop some wood, 'twill do you good,
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.”

"The Preacher and the Slave" (1911)

“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?”

"Workers of the World Awaken"