{"author":"Jose Rizal","author_id":"Jose+Rizal","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["political","control","will "],"id":49376,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["life","people","movement "],"id":51383,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["peace","live","better "],"id":68905,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["routine","down","dangerous "],"id":78472,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["day","spark","will "],"id":113767,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["wish","trying","nation "],"id":149388,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["people","race","two "],"id":180205,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["world","small","drama "],"id":270604,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'.","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["life","i am","writing "],"id":282544,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"},{"text":"To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?","author":"Jose Rizal","tags":["life","doubt","conscience "],"id":290070,"author_id":"Jose+Rizal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}