Jim Jones

Peoples Temple cult leader

Contemporary weird famous 110 sayings

Sayings by Jim Jones

I'm the spirit.

1978 — Sermon in Jonestown
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I'm the soul.

1978 — Sermon in Jonestown
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I'm the mind.

1978 — Sermon in Jonestown
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I'm the body.

1978 — Sermon in Jonestown
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I'm the flesh.

1978 — Sermon in Jonestown
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Death is just stepping over into another plane.

1978 — Preaching in Jonestown
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If we can’t live in peace, then let’s die in peace.

1978 — Encouraging mass suicide
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They’re coming for us. I’ve seen them.

1978 — Paranoid rant before the massacre
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I am the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Lenin.

1970s — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And I'm here to repeat it, but in a different way.

1978 — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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I'm not here to save you. I'm here to show you how to save yourselves.

1970s — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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If you want to be free, you got to shed blood.

1978 — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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I am God. I am the only God there is.

1970s — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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Death is not an end, it's a beginning. It's a new beginning.

1978 — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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We are all one. We are all family. And we will die together, if necessary.

1978 — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

1970s — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown (quoting Mao Zedong, but presenting it as his own or endorsing…
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If I can't live with you, I'll die with you.

1978 — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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We're not dying, we're committing an act of revolutionary suicide.

1978 — Final address, 'Death Tape'
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I'm not afraid to die. I'm afraid to live without purpose.

1970s — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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You can't have a revolution without bloodshed.

1970s — Sermon at Peoples Temple in Jonestown
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