{"quotes":[{"text":"The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amuse","amusement","barbarian","barbarism","bore","bored-boredom","civilization","civilized","complain","complaint","destination","entertain","entertainment","hurry","meditate","meditation","road-rage","stress","stress-free","stress-management","stress-relief","stressed","stressful","suffer","suffering","traffic","traffic-jam"],"id":56037,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisitiveness","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","avarice","axiom","axioms","capitalism","civilization","civilize","civilized","contagious","covetousness","cupidity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humorous","humour","impossible","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","maxim","maxims","mental-illness","mentally-ill","mercenariness","philosopher","possible","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rapacity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":61199,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Mr Judge, Jury \u0026 Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["civilized-behavior","civilized-governance","civilized","civilized","civilized-society","danger","dangerous","dangerous-minds","dangerous-people","dangerous-world","execution","execution","execution","executioner","jail","judge","judgement","judgemental","jury","jury-trials","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","prison","society","usa"],"id":69492,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Mr Judge, Jury \u0026 Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["civilized-behavior","civilized-governance","civilized","civilized","civilized-society","danger","dangerous","dangerous-minds","dangerous-people","dangerous-world","execution","execution","execution","executioner","jail","judge","judgement","judgemental","jury","jury-trials","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","prison","society","usa"],"id":69492,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["civilised","civilised-society","civilized","civilized-society","country","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","protecting-wild-life","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","wild-life","wild-life-protection"],"id":70344,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["civilization","civilized","civilized-behavior","civilized-beings","human-mind","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspiring","love-and-kindness","motivational","progress","sage","social-change","social-progress","social-psychology","thinkers","wisdom","wise","wise-saying"],"id":75164,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["animals","civilized","philosophy","trouble","world","zoo"],"id":75555,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of the man who can administer such eloquent rebukes. In Russia, not only may a man beat his wife, but it is laid down in the catechism and taught all boys at the time of confirmation as necessary at least once a week, whether she has done anything or not, for the sake of her general health and happiness.'I thought I observed a tendency in the Man of Wrath rather to gloat over these castigations.'Pray, my dear man,' I said, pointing with my whip, 'look at that baby moon so innocently peeping at us over the edge of the mist just behind that silver birch; and don't talk so much about women and things you don't understand. What is the use of your bothering about fists and whips and muscles and all the dreadful things invented for the confusion of obstreperous wives? You know you are a civilised husband, and a civilised husband is a creature who has ceased to be a man.'And a civilised wife?' he asked, bringing his horse close up beside me and putting his arm round my waist, 'has she ceased to be a woman?'I should think so indeed,--she is a goddess, and can never be worshipped and adored enough.","author":"Elizabeth von Arnim","tags":["civilized","feminism","goddess","man","woman"],"id":89511,"author_id":"Elizabeth+von+Arnim"},{"text":"I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.","author":"George Meredith","tags":["civilized","man","woman","women"],"id":129671,"author_id":"George+Meredith"},{"text":"Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["civilized","crime","discovery","education","future","hatred","ignorance","income","killing","peace","philosophy","progress","savagery","science","truth","war"],"id":131300,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}