{"quotes":[{"text":"One bad turn does not excuse another.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["getting-even","retaliation","revenge","richelle","richelle-goodrich","unkindness","vengeance"],"id":14105,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["pleasure","sadism","unkindness"],"id":24725,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.","author":"Larry Crabb","tags":["hurt","response","sin","unkindness","victim","victimization"],"id":58136,"author_id":"Larry+Crabb"},{"text":"Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. 'You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours.'The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful,' he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. 'We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing.'I will never give it up,' she answered.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["advice","appearence","daughter","determination","father","looks","talent","taunting","unkindness"],"id":123659,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...That makes you unkind.","author":"Sue Miller","tags":["desperation","empathy","unkindness"],"id":175214,"author_id":"Sue+Miller"},{"text":"Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.","author":"Carlos Ruiz Zafón","tags":["black-heart","hate","jealousy","mean-people","unkindness"],"id":182440,"author_id":"Carlos+Ruiz+Zaf%C3%B3n"},{"text":"The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["haunt","life","unkind-words","unkindness","writers-life","writers-on-writing","writers"],"id":183345,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["carousing","drinking","merriment","unkindness"],"id":209750,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["being-mean","mean","meanness","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","self-control","unkindness"],"id":289881,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["brutality","humanity","selfishnesh","stupidity","survival","threat","unkindness"],"id":353501,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}