{"quotes":[{"text":"In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.","author":"Oche Otorkpa","tags":["academically","bankrupt","cloud-nine","emotion","emotionally","ground-zero","medical","medically","teens","youngpeople"],"id":19280,"author_id":"Oche+Otorkpa"},{"text":"Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.","author":"Herman Wouk","tags":["cities","death","ground-zero","manhattan","modernity","sadism","thanatos-instinct","united-states"],"id":139619,"author_id":"Herman+Wouk"},{"text":"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["9-11","bombay","charminar","church-of-south-india","ground-zero","hannah","new-york","prayer"],"id":266552,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"Everyone thought the mob was done after RICO.... And they were. Then the Towers came down. Overnight, the feds shifted three-quarters of their personnel into anti-terrorism and the mob made a comeback. Shit, they even made a fortune overcharging for debris removal from Ground Zero.... 9/11 saved the mafia.","author":"Don Winslow","tags":["9-11","fbi","ground-zero","mafia","mob","new-york-city"],"id":457120,"author_id":"Don+Winslow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}