{"quotes":[{"text":"By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. But would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","convenience","human-rights","opposition","oppression","peace","profit","religion","suffering"],"id":154,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"Not bad, not bad at all,' Diotallevi said. 'To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["philosophy","philosophy-of-religion","religion","theology","truth"],"id":211,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["morality","religion"],"id":254,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"I should like the woman I choose to be very honest, generous, and to have a sincere faith in God, rather than mindlessly following the rules.","author":"Melanie Dickerson","tags":["faith-in-god","generousity","honesty","medieval-fairy-tale","melanie-dickerson","relationship-goals","religion","young-adult-romance"],"id":256,"author_id":"Melanie+Dickerson"},{"text":"What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.","author":"Eliezer Yudkowsky","tags":["belief","religion"],"id":289,"author_id":"Eliezer+Yudkowsky"},{"text":"We are soon approaching a refined holiday, 'Merry Mas,' where Christ will be taken out of its context.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["america","anti-god","antichrist","changes","christianity","christmas","complainers","generation","government","holiday","jesus","liberty","meaning-of-life","merry-christmas","religion","society"],"id":297,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it.","author":"Anand Neelakantan","tags":["common man","magic","religion"],"id":376,"author_id":"Anand+Neelakantan"},{"text":"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["essence","form","perception","religion","sufis","sufism","time","truth"],"id":403,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["god","morality","philosophy","religion"],"id":414,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["church","cults","ego","movements","politics","reality","religion"],"id":422,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7250,"pages":725,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}