{"quotes":[{"text":"The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. The signal was given, the barriers were down. As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief....In a few minutes the business quarter, based on centuries of tradition, was wiped out. It is true that there had always been concealed enmities and jealousies and religious intolerance, coarseness and cruelty, but there had also been courage and fellowship and a feeling for measure and order, which restrained all these instincts within the limits of the supportable and, in the end, calmed them down and submitted them to the general interest of life in common. Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.P. 11.","author":"Peter Maass","tags":["balkans","conflict","eastern-europe","ivo-andric","love-thy-neighbor","nature-of-man","peter-maass","war","wild-beast","yugoslavia"],"id":14462,"author_id":"Peter+Maass"},{"text":"Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each other as we love ourselves. It’s possible, however, that we live in a post-accepting-bigotry-cloaking-itself-in-the-raiments-of-Christ America. And, you know. I can live in that America just fine.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["america","bigotry","christ","christianity","fellowship","gay-marriage","glbt-rights","jesus","love","love-thy-neighbor","social-justice"],"id":17909,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other scripture. The religion I speak of, is what Christ talked about, it is what Buddha talked about, it is the religion of plain everyday kindness.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","empathy","harmony","humanism","humanitarian","inspirational","kindness","love","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","peace","philosophy","religion","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","thinkers"],"id":43362,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.","author":"Aaron Lauritsen","tags":["100-days-drive","100daysdrive","acceptance","accomplish","ambition","awakening","be-happy","be-proud","believe","bestseller","break-barriers","carmaker","chances","change","chase-dreams","cherish","compassion","competition","confidence","conquer","conquer-fear","content","control-you-life","courage","crossroads","destiny","determination","dig-deep","dont-give-up","don-t-worry-be-happy","dream-big","dreamer","empower","energy","explore","faith","fearless","find-yourself","follow-your-dreams","follow-your-heart","follow-your-own-path","forgive","freedom","fresh-start","goal-setting","goals","goals-in-life","good-soul","happiness","hope","humanity","humility","inner-beauty","inner-strength","inspiration","journey","joy","judgement","liberate","liberating","life","life-lessons","light","live-life","love-thy-neighbor","love-thyself","love-yourself","luck","memoir","never-quit","no-regrets","nomad","one-life","opportunity","parenthood","perspective","positive-thinking","power","pride","push-limits","reflections","resiliency","respect","risk-taking","road-trip","satisfaction","service-to-others","soar","soul-food","spirituality","start-all-over","strength","struggle","success","thick-skin","think-outside-the-box","travel","values","wander","wanderlust","writer"],"id":43797,"author_id":"Aaron+Lauritsen"},{"text":"Forget all the formal decency of tolerance, and simply love your fellow humans. And the Self within you shall attain the highest pedestal of greatness, way higher than all the book-learned preachers in the world.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","compassionate","humanity","inspirational","inspiring","kindness","love","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","love-thy-neighbour","motivational","preacher","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","sage","scriptures","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","tolerance","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":45940,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way.","author":"Aaron Lauritsen","tags":["100-days-drive","100daysdrive","acceptance","accomplish","ambition","awakening","be-happy","be-proud","believe","bestseller","bohemian","break-barriers","carmaker","chances","change","chase-dreams","cherish","coming-of-age","compassion","competition","confidence","conquer","conquer-fear","content","control-you-life","courage","crossroads","destiny","determination","dig-deep","dont-give-up","don-t-worry-be-happy","dream-big","dreamer","empower","energy","enjoy-life","explore","faith","fearless","find-yourself","follow-your-dreams","follow-your-heart","follow-your-own-path","forgive","free","freedom","fresh-start","goal-setting","goals","goals-in-life","good-soul","gratitude","happiness","hope","humanity","humility","inner-beauty","inner-strength","inspiration","journey","joy","judgement","liberate","liberating","life","life-lessons","light","limitless","live-life","love-thy-neighbor","love-thyself","love-yourself","luck","memoir","never-quit","no-regrets","nomad","one-life","opportunity","parenthood","perspective","positive-thinking","power","pride","push-limits","reflections","resiliency","respect","risk-taking","road-trip","satisfaction","service-to-others","soar","soul-food","spirituality","start-all-over","strength","struggle","success","thick-skin","think-outside-the-box","travel","values","wander","wanderlust","writer"],"id":46537,"author_id":"Aaron+Lauritsen"},{"text":"The religion I am talking about here is plain everyday humanism. That’s exactly what the person named Jesus attempted to spread, but due to innate psychological reasons, his pupils ended up constructing yet another orthodox circle with its own distinct beliefs, ideals and fantasies.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["beliefs","brainy","christ","christianity","christians","compassion","consciousness","evolutionary-psychology","fantasies","gods","human-mind","human-nature","ideals","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","love","love-thy-neighbor","neurotheology","philosophy","prophets","religion","religions","religious-diversity","science-and-religion","science-of-human-nature","science-of-mind","self-preservation","truth"],"id":47268,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred times more religious than all the theoretical preachers of all religions combined.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["agnostics","atheism","atheists","brainy-qutoes","compassion","harmony","humanism","inspirational","kindness","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","motivational","peace","religious-extremism","religious-violence","rleigion","rleigious-fundamentalism","thinkers","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":55053,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. The signal was given, the barriers were down. As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief....In a few minutes the business quarter, based on centuries of tradition, was wiped out. It is true that there had always been concealed enmities and jealousies and religious intolerance, coarseness and cruelty, but there had also been courage and fellowship and a feeling for measure and order, which restrained all these instincts within the limits of the supportable and, in the end, calmed them down and submitted them to the general interest of life in common. Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.P. 11.","author":"Peter Maass","tags":["balkans","conflict","eastern-europe","ivo-andric","love-thy-neighbor","nature-of-man","peter-maass","war","wild-beast","yugoslavia"],"id":56287,"author_id":"Peter+Maass"},{"text":"Doctrines, no matter which path of human endeavor they come from, must serve the humans, not the humans serving the doctrines. “Love thy neighbor” - is a great doctrine, but more importantly, it is an unparalleled piece of magnificent human teaching – as such, whoever practices it, becomes a better human, a real human. On the other hand, there is another doctrine that says “God may purify the believers and destroy the disbelievers” – now would you, as a real conscientious human being, consider this one as a great beneficial doctrine or teaching for humanity? Far from being great, doctrines like this are the ones that compel the human society to forget its innate humanism.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","consciousness","doctrine","doctrine-of-virtue","doctrines","empathy","human-mind","human-nature","humanism","humanity","indoctrination","inspirational","kindness","love","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","love-thy-neighbour","philosophy","principles-of-humanism","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","scripture","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":56727,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}