{"quotes":[{"text":"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advantage","altruism","benefit","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","object","philosopher","philosophy","pleasure","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":41834,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You don’t approve?” Joan asked, picking up on Delphine’s tone. “Their stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors.”“What do you mean?” said Bea.“Certainly sometimes a good little character would find a lamp, and would not be so corrupted by the strangely endless possibilities of three wishes that they ended up causing more harm than they ever imagined. Those stories fostered belief, they were retold, certainly; but they were few and far between. Most of the genie’s tales showed the characters exactly who they really were, not when they were despised and degraded, not when they’d reached the gutter and been given licence to look at the stars. No, the genies showed them who they were when they were invincible. The characters, they try to forget stories like that.","author":"F.D. Lee","tags":["fantasy","fantasy-fiction","genie","genies","philosophy"],"id":72384,"author_id":"F.D.+Lee"},{"text":"Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","good","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","selfishness","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfishness"],"id":86433,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","motivation","motive","motives","nelson-mandela","pain","philosopher","philosophy","pleasure","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":93420,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","breakup","breakups","charity","compassion","debt","divorce","empathy","fail","failure","feed","food","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","heart","hearts","humanity","humor","humour","job","kitchen","loss","love","lover","lovers","mahatma-ghandi","man","mandela","marriage","men","mercy","mortgage","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","nutrition","occupation","partner","partners","philosopher","philosophy","poverty","rent","rental","romance","satire","satirist","security","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","spouse","spouses","starvation","stomach","sympathy","teresa","tummy","unemployment","unselfish","unselfishness","woman","women"],"id":115241,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","impossibility","impossible","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","satirist","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfish","unselfishness"],"id":119523,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","bad","charity","compassion","empathy","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","good","humanity","humor","humour","mahatma-ghandi","mandela","mercy","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","philosopher","philosophy","satire","selfishness","selflessness","social-criticism","sympathy","teresa","unselfishness"],"id":153429,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Some men may be unready for the coming of the genie who grants three wishes.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["genie","god","solomon","three-wishes"],"id":174820,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","charity","compassion","debt","divorce","empathy","fail","failure","feed","food","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","humanity","humor","humour","job","kitchen","loss","love","lover","lovers","mahatma-ghandi","man","mandela","marriage","men","mercy","mortgage","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","nutrition","occupation","partner","partners","philosopher","philosophy","poverty","rent","rental","satire","satirist","security","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","spouse","spouses","starvation","stomach","sympathy","teresa","tummy","unemployment","unselfish","unselfishness","woman","women"],"id":326886,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.","author":"Eldon Taylor","tags":["belief","genie","life","power"],"id":365343,"author_id":"Eldon+Taylor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}