{"quotes":[{"text":"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisitiveness","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","avarice","axiom","axioms","capitalism","civilization","civilize","civilized","contagious","covetousness","cupidity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humorous","humour","impossible","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","maxim","maxims","mental-illness","mentally-ill","mercenariness","philosopher","possible","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rapacity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":61199,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Such is the condition of organic nature! Whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!","author":"Erasmus Darwin","tags":["condition","eat-or-be-eaten","injustice","nature","rapacity","slaughterhouse","struggle-of-existence","struggle-of-life"],"id":437927,"author_id":"Erasmus+Darwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}