{"quotes":[{"text":"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["battleground","biase","biased","buttons","censor","censorship","circus","control","controlled","corruption","democracy","fake","government","government-corruption","guilty","illusion","influence","influential","innocent","internet","judge","judgment","manipulate","manipulated","net","orchestrate","perceive","perception","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","public-opinion","regulated","regulation","silence","skewed","slanted","trolls","viewpoint","war","web"],"id":22199,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"If Jesus regarded it as important the blessing that comes to one who voluntarily renders help, then the churches have been right in presenting the claims of philanthropy as on of the most important of religious obligations. For one thing, this obligation keeps us sensitive and aware toward an important aspect of our environment --- other peoples needs. Secondly, this is a rightful stewardship of ones own property, and it is the antithesis of the practice whereby one man volunteers another mans property for use in alleviating some real of imagined distress --- as in various schemes of social security.","author":"Edmund A. Opitz","tags":["charity","government","government-corruption","jesus"],"id":22273,"author_id":"Edmund+A.+Opitz"},{"text":"Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?","author":"Thomas Love Peacock","tags":["corruption-politics","fools","government","government-corruption","incompetence","knaves"],"id":25186,"author_id":"Thomas+Love+Peacock"},{"text":"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","capitalism","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","capitalists","censorship","corporate-gain","corrupt","corruption","defunct","democracy","democratic","dysfunctional","empire","government","government-corruption","greed","greed-corruption","greedy","humanity","hypocrisy","interests","justice","leadership","money","nation","not-working","people","plutocracy","policies","profit","profit-drive","profitability","profits","rulership","social-system","social-systems","society","system","truth"],"id":37848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["ity","government","government-corruption","question-ity"],"id":60457,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"},{"text":"Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["dictatorship","donald-trump","donald-trump-president","donald-trump","fascism","fascism","fascism","first-amendment","free-press","free-press","freedom-of-the-press","government","government-corruption","government","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","president-trump","president-trump"],"id":66352,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","airlines","bail","bail-out","banker","bankers","banking","banking-system","banks","best-leader","big-business","big-pharma","bipartisan","blood","books","brave","bravery","bribe","bridges","build-bridges","capitalism","censor","censorship","chaos","character","citizen","common-man","companies","confident","confident-leader","conscience","conservation","convergence","corporations","corrupt","corruption","country","critic","criticism","criticsm","darkness","decisionmakers","decison-makers","democrat","destruction","diplomacy","diplomatic","discriminate","discrimination","dissent","diversity","divide","divides","division","doctor","doctors","education","educators","election","elections","employment","environment","environmental","environmentalism","environmentalist","equality","ethnic-tolerance","fair","fairness","families","farmer","fear","for-the-people","foreign-relations","freedom","freedom-of-speech","funding","furture","future-leaders","good-leader","government","government-corruption","great-leader","great-leadership","great-nation","greatness","greed","guide","hands","hate","hatred","health-care","heart-driven","hearts","homes","honest","honest-broker","honorable","human-condition","human-life","humanity","humans","humble","hypocrisy","identify","ignorance","immaturity","immorality","improvement","incentives","indentifies","inspire","integrity","intellectualism","intelligent","job","jobs","justice","law","lawlessness","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-traits","libraries","library","lie","lies","lobbyist","losing","love","make-america-great-again","man-on-the-street","mankind","monetary","monetary-profit","money","money-driven","morality","mortage","mortages","multinational","nation","oil","oil-tycoon","peace","peaceful","peacekeeper","peacemaker","peacemakers","people","pharma","pharmaceutical","pick-a-leader","picking-sides","political-science","politics","preservation","president","presidential","protection","public","race","race-tolerance","racism","religious-tolerance","republican","school","schools","scrutiny","secrecy","security","segregation","selecting","serves-the-people","silencing-dissent","sly","society","speech","spending","stability","street","street-level","strong","teacher","teachers","team","terror","tolerance","tolerate","transparency","truth","truthfulness","understand","understanding","unite","unites","uniting","unity","vote","voter","voting","walls","war","we-the-people","weapons","wisdom","word"],"id":77345,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["deceit","deception","despot","dictator","elections","government","government-corruption","guide","leader","leadership","manager","politician","politics","sacrifice","sacrificing","servant-leadership","tyrant","united-states","visionary"],"id":101450,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["awareness-of-guilt","choice","choices-and-consequences","confining","corruption","corruption-politics","decision-making","decisions-inspirational","distorted-thoughts","distortion","experience","freedom","freedom-of-choice","global-community","government-corruption","idealism","ideals","inspirational","issue-importance","making-a-difference","national-security","nationalism","patriotism","personal-development","personal-planning","personal-responsibility","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","primary","priorities","priorities","prioritizing-your-goals","problems-of-today","reflections","role-of-government","role-playing","self-esteem","selfishness"],"id":103223,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["founding-fathers","freedom","government-corruption","gun-control","gun-laws","gun-rights","guns","liberty","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","second-amendment","self-defense","tyranny"],"id":119232,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}