Jim Jones quotes

Jim Jones was an American religious leader and cult founder, best known as the leader of the Peoples Temple. His leadership culminated in the tragic mass suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. He remains infamous for orchestrating one of the deadliest cult tragedies in modern history. Here are 8 of his quotes:

Take our life from us. We laid it down. We got tired. We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.

Jim Jones

If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin.

Jim Jones

If my wife said, I'm not going to be a communist, I'd say, well, forget it, by God, I'll forget you too.

Jim Jones

The young preacher once threw his Bible to the floor and yelled at his associates, "Too many people are looking at this instead of looking at me!"

Jim Jones

My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home.

Jim Jones

Son of a bitchin' no good lousy ass anarchistic capitalist bitch. That's what I say about my relatives, but you won't say it.

Jim Jones

I'd like to choose my own kind of death, for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell. Tired of it.

Jim Jones