{"quotes":[{"text":"When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bias","class","discernment","disrespect","equality","geniune","human-being","person","rank","respect","righteous","status","stereotype","title"],"id":1767,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["bodies","emotions","extension","god","human-being","mathematics","mind","natural-laws","nature","passions","thought","world"],"id":6960,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["alter","altering","change","changing","depressed","depression","encourage","encouraging","forlorn","happiness","happy","human","human-being","impossible","joy","joyful","lift","possible","raise","sad","sadness","smile","smiling","transform","transformation","uplift","world"],"id":12608,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I believe and what I don’t believe. Silence is not respect; it is not condemning brutality and cruelty, and neglecting your own existence as human being. I will be killed and so many others because of standing against the fallacy and misleading notion of religions. They will torture us and cut us in pieces alive and even won’t stop disrespecting our death bodies; that is how these monsters have been governing for hundreds thousands of years.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["beliefs","fallacy","human-being","killing","misleading-notion","morals","respect","respecting","silence","struggling","torture","values"],"id":18759,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.","author":"Shawn Lukas","tags":["artist","human","human-being","real-art","real-artist"],"id":34180,"author_id":"Shawn+Lukas"},{"text":"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["act","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","believe","conform","conformity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","expect","expectation","expectations","feel","feeling","feelings","funny","gnome","gnomes","human","human-being","human-beings","humanity","humans","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","mankind","maxim","maxims","people","person","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","south-africa","south-african","think","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":35272,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In today's time, no other ''charity'' is acceptable or practical than the ''wisdom'' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success.","author":"Deep Trivedi","tags":["deep-trivedi","human-being","success","the-pulse-of-wisdom","transformation","wisdom"],"id":36526,"author_id":"Deep+Trivedi"},{"text":"Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["alturistic","art","artist","artist","artistic","compassion","destiny","fate","fate","heart","heart-centre","heart-chakra","her","human-being","love","nikki-rowe","passion","passionate","women","writer","writers"],"id":38034,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["detachment","heart","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","human","human-being","human-nature","inspirational","spirituality","spirituality"],"id":43532,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"Universe doesn't even know that you exist, so relax!","author":"Carl William Brown","tags":["carl-william-brown","existence","human-being","man","quotes","relax","relaxation","universe"],"id":45134,"author_id":"Carl+William+Brown"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":138,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}