{"quotes":[{"text":"I detect the activist returning with a vengence.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["activism","activist","demonstrations","fight-for-your-right","free-speech","gadfly","help-your-community","protest","public-protest","rights","rights-of-man","vengence","worthy-causes"],"id":1562,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,' Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, 'I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["cake","crashing-your-diet","dessert","fighting-for-your-right","fighting-tyranny","food","foodie","foodies","funny","gadfly","grandparents","humor","humorous","humourous","lunch","oppression","rights","tyranny"],"id":14886,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["blame","blame-game","catholic","catholic-","christian","gadfly","god","good","good-and-evil","goodness","human-nature","pain","satan","suffering","suffering-of-humanity","sufferings","thought-provoking"],"id":32028,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"... How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic-","depression","free-choice","free-will","freedom","gadfly","heart","heartache","liberty","mind","pain","persecution","suppression","tyranny"],"id":35584,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Let's always try to paint the truth ... Our art must be made to mean something.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","art-and-artists","artist","arts-and-humanities","artsy","artwork","creative-people","creativity","gadfly","goals","humanities","idealism","inspirational","meaning","meaning-of-art","motivational","priorities","purpose","search-for-truth","truth"],"id":43065,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","capitalism","economy","false-hype","gadfly","hypocrisy","industry","junk","market-economy","market-economy-as-a-threat","modern-art","modern-art-market-market","modern-artists","sales","sales-effectiveness","salesmen","trash","worthless"],"id":43094,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","artists","arts","arts-and-humanities","catholic","catholic-","christian","dignity","dignity-in-the-arts","ethics","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","free-for-all","freedom","freedom-of-expression","gadfly","limits","media","moderation","modesty","morality","morals","virtue","virtue-of-modesty","virtues","virtues-and-vices"],"id":50852,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["activism","activist","demonstration","demonstrations","do-the-right-thing","fighting-oppression","fighting-tyrany","gadfly","human-rights","inspirational","motivational","oppression","people-power","protest","protesters","stand-up-for-your-rights","tyranny","tyrants","whistle-blower","whistle-blowers"],"id":51148,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","christian","citizens","civil-liberty","free-country","freedom","freedom-of-thought","gadfly","liberty","philosophers","philosophical","philosophy","plato","socrates","thought-provoking","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":54205,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["arts-and-humanities","creative-process","creative-reading","creative-thinking","creativity","editing","editing-humor","editors","gadfly","monet","reading","reading-books","writers","writers-world","writing","writing-books"],"id":59038,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}