{"quotes":[{"text":"...New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["cleric","enlightenment","freedom","prejudices","reason","unthinking"],"id":3355,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...And think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.","author":"Mitch Kynock","tags":["cleric","mystery","spirituality"],"id":81869,"author_id":"Mitch+Kynock"},{"text":"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["angelic","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","bad","base","believer","believers","bible","blameless","chaplain","chaplains","church","churches","churchman","churchmen","clergyman","clergymen","cleric","clerics","congregation","congregations","corrupt","criminal","crooked","curate","curates","debased","debauched","decent","degenerate","depraved","dishonest","dishonorable","disreputable","dissolute","ecclesiastic","ecclesiastics","ethical","evil","foul","funny","godless","good","high-minded","hilarious","honest","honorable","humor","humorous","humour","image","imam","imams","immoral","impress","impression","impure","iniquitous","irreproachable","joke","jokes","law-abiding","lewd","licentious","loose","lowdown","man-of-the-cloth","men-of-the-cloth","minister","ministers","miscreant","moral","morally-wrong","nefarious","noble","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","obscene","padre","padres","pagan","parson","parsons","pastor","pastors","persona","perverse","perverted","preacher","preachers","priest","priests","principled","promiscuous","pure","quotations","quotes","rector","rectors","reprobate","reverend","reverends","righteous","saintly","satire","shady","shameless","sinful","sleazy","synagogue","synagogues","unchaste","unconscionable","unethical","unprincipled","unscrupulous","unvirtuous","upright","upstanding","vicar","vicars","vile","villainous","virtuous","wanton","wicked","wish","wrongful"],"id":426214,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}