Latest Jim Goad Quotes from Interviews

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• In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Men, Years

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• When you're indiscriminate in allowing people to post, the loudest and emptiest voices invariably drown out everyone else.

  Jim Goad

  Voice, People, Posts

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

  Jim Goad

  Ideas, Developing

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.

  Jim Goad

  Hair, Race, Skin Color

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Jail, Racism

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• The leftist drive for control is insatiable.

  Jim Goad

  Leftists, Insatiable

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

  Jim Goad

  Hate, Government, Law

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.

  Jim Goad

  Bullying, Hate, People

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

  Jim Goad

  Racist, Shut Up, Propaganda

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

  Jim Goad

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

  Jim Goad

  Nice, Ideas, Impossible

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.

  Jim Goad

  Race, Paper, Rooms

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival.

  Jim Goad

  Survival, Groups, Different

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Fiction, Lines

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

  Jim Goad

  Ideas, Impossible, Everlasting

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• I don't believe that human ethnic groups are equal, and I believe that's fairly easy to prove.

  Jim Goad

  Believe, Groups, Easy

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.

  Jim Goad

  Lust, One Day, Chemistry

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• 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

  Cancer, Divorce, Dark

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• 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

  Father, Evil, Giving

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats?

  Jim Goad

  Song, Appreciation, Cat

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, House, Pet

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Fatherhood, Instinct

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Angle, Given

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Source: love-and-pop.com

• 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

  Strong, Brother, Home

  Source: love-and-pop.com