{"quotes":[{"text":"The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent.","author":"Francis Beauchesne Thornton","tags":["goodness","holiness","humanity","modernism","modernity","sin","spiritual-growth","spiritual-warfare","virtue","virtues-and-vices"],"id":10138,"author_id":"Francis+Beauchesne+Thornton"},{"text":"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not see.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["virtue","virtues-and-vices"],"id":19271,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["compassion","humanism","humanist","humanist-psychology","humanist","humanistic","humanistic-spirituality","humanists","humanitarian","love","love-and-kindness","philosophy","religion","religion-and-philosophy","sage","sage","sage-saying","service-to-community","service-to-god","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","service-to-people","thinker","virtue","virtue","virtues-and-vices","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":43647,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.","author":"Raymond E. Feist","tags":["vanity","virtues-and-vices"],"id":45392,"author_id":"Raymond+E.+Feist"},{"text":"There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","artists","arts","arts-and-humanities","catholic","catholic-","christian","dignity","dignity-in-the-arts","ethics","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","free-for-all","freedom","freedom-of-expression","gadfly","limits","media","moderation","modesty","morality","morals","virtue","virtue-of-modesty","virtues","virtues-and-vices"],"id":50852,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind’s creation, and you can enjoy them—if you choose—without being broken by them.- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["empowerment","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-thought","independence","morality","self-determination","sins","spiritual-transformation","strength","vice-magazine","vices","virtues-and-vices","zeena-schreck"],"id":139332,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.","author":"Raymond E. Feist","tags":["character","virtues-and-vices"],"id":140573,"author_id":"Raymond+E.+Feist"},{"text":"Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["beautiful","beauty","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","manifestation","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","popular","popularity","virtue","virtues","virtues-and-vices","visibility","visible","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":159438,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["character","good-and-evil","personality","vices","virtue","virtues-and-vices"],"id":186829,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["america","boundaries","elves-and-pixies","flaws","imaginary","pains","personality","pleasures","real-estate","virtues-and-vices"],"id":236189,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}