“The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did ’em.”
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.”