{"author":"Warren Eyster","author_id":"Warren+Eyster","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["foreign-relations","latin-america","politics","politics-of-central-america","politics-of-mexico","politics-of-south-america","politics-of-the-united-states","united-states"],"id":19319,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"He would have been careful not to violate his conscience in any way that might keep him from devoting his full attention to the sin he had decided to commit. Pedro was not really very different from all men, at least in that. Not very different from the bank teller who makes sure to give every customer exact change, even while he is embezzling.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["breaking the law","ethics","ethics and moral philosophy","morality"],"id":25606,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["central america","economic depression","economics","mexico","poverty"],"id":28346,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["buttons","caste-system","civilized-behavior","classicism","first-world-problems","wealth"],"id":55429,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["agriculture","farming","fertility","fertilizer","irrigation","irrigation-system","poverty"],"id":99359,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["blame","blame-game","scapegoat","scapegoating","scapegoats","truisms","unpleasant-truth"],"id":107893,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["agriculture","drought","farming","poverty"],"id":116208,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["elders","experience","grandchildren","grandparents","senior-citizens","youth"],"id":134618,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["government","patience","patience-and-timing","revolution","visionaries"],"id":157495,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["brutality","cowardice","cowards","cruelty","evil-men","evil-people","psychopath","psycopaths","sadism","sadist","sadistic","sadists","villains"],"id":261934,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}