{"quotes":[{"text":"The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["beliefs","christian","christianity","convictions","ethics","god","god-fearing","godly","integrity","leaders","leadership","morals","pray","prayer","praying","standing","supplication","values"],"id":388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["build-values","chasing","chastity","daughters-of-god","dignity","ego","empowering-women","gratitude","hell-to-well","insecurity","knowing-your-worth","lessons-learned","let-it-go","letting-go","life-lessons","living-authentically","morals","moving-on","other-woman","pride","pursuit","quality","quality-women","rise-up","self-compassion","self-confidence","self-love","self-worth","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","temptress","to-be-human","wellness"],"id":4206,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.","author":"Glenn Beck","tags":["morals","society"],"id":6731,"author_id":"Glenn+Beck"},{"text":"Individuals are concerned notwith the moral issue of realizing these standards, but withthe amoral issue of engineering a convincing impression thatthese standards are being realized. Our activity, then, islargely concerned with moral matters, but as performers wedo not have a moral concern in these moral matters. Asperformers we are merchants of morality. Our day is givenover to intimate contact with the goods we display and ourminds are filled with intimate understandings of them; but itmay well be that the more attention we give to these goods,th e more d is ta n t we feel from them and from those who arebelieving enough to buy them. To use a different imagery,the very obligation and profitablility of appearing always ina steady moral light, of being a socialized character, forcesus to be the sort of person who is practiced in the ways ofthe stage.","author":"Erving Goffman","tags":["dramaturgy","morals","philosophy","sociology"],"id":6831,"author_id":"Erving+Goffman"},{"text":"One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beneficial","benefit","bigotry","close-mindedness","contradiction","different","laws","morals","oneness","open-mindedness","rights"],"id":6873,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["morals","secret"],"id":15282,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.","author":"Muhammad Ali Jinnah","tags":["ali","corruption","development","discipline","education","equality","faith","guard","harmony","islam","jinnah","justice","leader","life","love","maintenance","manhood","morals","muhammad","native","pakistan","peace","power","social","society","soil","stand","system","thinking","unity","values"],"id":15511,"author_id":"Muhammad+Ali+Jinnah"},{"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":"Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!Love, Your Guardian Angel.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["angels","archeangels","being-unique","believe","believing-in-others","big-dreams","bravery","bullies","caring","caring-too-much","chains","choices","christ","compassion","courage","courageous","crossroads","dante-s-inferno","daughter-of-god","dreams","empowering-women","faithful","family-in-heaven","forgiveness","freedom","future","gideon","god-s-plan","guardian-angel","guardian-angels","harry-potter","harry-potter-related","harry-potter-s-family","hatred","having-a-conscience","having-faith","hell","hell-on-earth","hold-onto-god","holy-ghost","humane","humanity","insecurity","insightful","integrity","jealousy","jedi-warrior","journeys","kindness","kindness-of-strangers","let-go","letting-go","life-purpose","love","loving-one-another","merciful","mercy","moral-conscience","morals","no-coincidences","obstacles","onlyness","pain","pray","prayers","praying-for-others","preexistence","preordination","protection","qreat","removing-chains","revenge","rise-up","see","seeing","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-improvement","self-insight","self-respect","sending-angels","smile","softening-your-heart","sorrow","spirits","stalkers","stay-positive","stayingpositiveuniversity-com","the-rainbow-path","the-red-path","the-white-path","trials","truth","uniqueness","vengeful","wisdom","zion"],"id":21459,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.","author":"Perry Anderson","tags":["accuracy","banality","falsity","ideas","intellectuals","morals","truth"],"id":23005,"author_id":"Perry+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":435,"pages":44,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}