{"quotes":[{"text":"He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["courage","cruel","cruelty","double-standards","family-issues","personality"],"id":3319,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["agressive","cruel","lie","picture","truth"],"id":20022,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820].","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["cruel","fake","freethinker","freethought","god-of-abraham","imposter","jehovah","judaism","lies","new-testament","reason","skeptic","skepticism","yahweh"],"id":26060,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"I was taught to follow the light, but the light got me lost, I was taught to see the light, but the light blinded my sight.It was the light who gave me judgment, and the judge was cruel and sick,I was taught to love the light, but darkness woke me up, and I was free.","author":"Quetzal","tags":["cruel","judge","light","love"],"id":32878,"author_id":"Quetzal"},{"text":"You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.","author":"Amanda Stephan","tags":["amanda-stephan","awesome","cruel","evil","hurting","mean","romance","the-price-of-trust"],"id":37758,"author_id":"Amanda+Stephan"},{"text":"In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cruel","cruel-world","cruelty","kindness","kindness","kindness","unsafe","virtue","virtue","virtues","wisdom","wisdom","world"],"id":43176,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["cool","cruel","kids","pick-on"],"id":47778,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["civil","civilization","combat","cruel","cruel-people","cruelty","gentleness","kind","living","peacemaking","reign","reigning","rule","strenght","the-art-of-war","weak","weakness-and-strength","wicked-people","wickedness","witches","world"],"id":57209,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["animal","animals","cruel","cruel-world","fact","human","humanity","humans","inhuman","inhumanity","less","many","more","philosophical","philosophy","this","war","wild","wildlife","wildness","world"],"id":64651,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? She asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words— Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.","author":"Khadija Rupa","tags":["betrayal","broken-heart","broken-promises","cruel","evil","he","hurts","khadija-rupa","khadija-rupa","love","unexpressed-feelings"],"id":78295,"author_id":"Khadija+Rupa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":106,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}