{"quotes":[{"text":"A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.","author":"Paul Eldridge","tags":["character","maxims","morality","power","secular-morality"],"id":23643,"author_id":"Paul+Eldridge"},{"text":"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["charity","mankind","secular-ethics","secular-morality"],"id":53801,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"The only crime is pride.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["american-culture","decline-of-western-civilization","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","morality","narcissism","narcissism-epidemic","narcissists","pride","reality-tv","religion","secular-morality","secularism","self-pity","sin","sociopath","sociopaths","sociopathy"],"id":96385,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["law","morality","philosophy","secular-ethics","secular-morality"],"id":308304,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.","author":"Al-Maʿarri","tags":["ethics","fairness","morality","morals","responsibility","scoundrel","scoundrels","secular-morality","shame","shameful"],"id":327318,"author_id":"Al-Ma%CA%BFarri"},{"text":"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["ethics","happiness","misery","morality","pain","secular-morality"],"id":328681,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["atheism","expectation","humanism","humanist","morality","reward","secular-morality"],"id":414169,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}