Jim Goad Quotes

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

I can be a cruel person.

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

There's always someone out there being mean, but what upsets me is the spite. Why are you like that? Why are you so horrible?

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

People are ruthless, man.

Nature is not human hearted.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

If you're mean to a gentle man, it makes your meanness worse.

This man Bush is just about as mean as he can be.

Ruthlessness is not something that comes easily.

Kids are ruthless.

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.