{"quotes":[{"text":"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-needs","busy","busyness","civilization","civilized","companies","company","cook","cooking","deep","dictum","dictums","eat","eat-out","eating","employee","employees","epigram","epigrams","exploit","exploitation","exploited","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","groceries","grocery","humor","humorous","humour","hunger","hungry","innate","insightful","laziness","lazy","made-me-think","make-a-living","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","owner","owners","persuade","philosopher","produce","production","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","restaurant","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-presavation","south-africa","south-african","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","takeaway","takeaways","takeout","thought-provoking","thoughtful","uncivilized"],"id":142124,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.","author":"Alexandra Ripley","tags":["free","freedom","masks","uncivilized"],"id":260455,"author_id":"Alexandra+Ripley"},{"text":"We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["animal","animals","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","barbarian","barbaric","barbarism","barbarous","brutish","civilization","civilize","civilized","compare","compare-to","convenience","convenient","creature","creatures","expedience","expedient","funny","heathen","homo-sapiens","human","human-beings","human-race","humanity","humans","humor","humour","ignorant","joke","jokes","liken","liken-to","neanderthal","people","persons","primitive","religion","satire","savage","species","suit","uncivilized","uncultivated","vulgar","wild"],"id":265085,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","barbaric","barbarism","civilization","civilize","civilized","cryonics","culture","dead","death","deaths","denial-of-death","die","escape","funny","humor","humour","if-only","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","leave-behind","left-behind","mortality","mummies","mummy","primitive","progress","satire","savage","uncivilized","wish","wishes"],"id":297678,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color.... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up....","author":"Muhammad Imran Hasan","tags":["angels","beast","children","civilized","color","growing-up","mind","racism","racist","society","teaching","think","uncivilized"],"id":319784,"author_id":"Muhammad+Imran+Hasan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}