“It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don’t they all teach that to do for others feels better than to do for yourself? That someone else’s happiness need not mean less happiness for you?”
More from Joe Hill
“To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.”
“Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth…”
“The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.”
“Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.”