{"quotes":[{"text":"[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.","author":"Moderata Fonte","tags":["crows","dignity","empowerment","envy","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","imagery","inequality","jealousy","men","merits","misogyny","suppression","ugliness","women","worth"],"id":5753,"author_id":"Moderata+Fonte"},{"text":"Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors—the living—could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs—those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact—had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not whol.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["boyhood","causes","childhood","christian-martyrs","christianity","comrades","conscription","death","fanaticism","friends","kamikaze","martyrdom","martyrs","masochism","memorials","november","orwell","patriotism","poppies","principles","religion","sacrifice","self-abnegation","self-importance","soldiers","suicide","suicide-attack","theocracy","torture","ugliness","war"],"id":11922,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["ugliness"],"id":19195,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish","debasish-mridha","mridha","philosophy","religion","religion-is-a-veil","ugliness"],"id":21132,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["beauty","evil","face","goodness","heart","inner-beauty","spiritual-insights","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","ugliness","vice","virtue"],"id":23992,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["beauty","extraordinary","ugliness"],"id":24907,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awakening","aware","awareness","beautiful","beauty","beauty","blind","blindness","conscious","consciousness","everybody","everyone","everywhere","face","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","perceive","perception","perspective","see","sight","transcend","transcendence","ugliness","ugly","until","vision"],"id":30115,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","beauty","bravery","conformity","courage","development","difficulties","difficulties-of-life","fear","fearlessness","fighting","hard","hardship","knowledge","learning","lessons","lessons-learning","life","life-lessons","originality","pain","past","perseverance","rebel","rebellion","risk","sacrifice","scars","suffering","tattoos","truth","ugliness","wisdom"],"id":36840,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["beautiful","debasish","debasish-mridha","decorate","forget","life","life-is-beautiful","mridha","philosophy","ugliness"],"id":44540,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["beauty","gender","ugliness"],"id":44759,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}