Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

A belief is an uneducated guess.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

You can only be twice someone’s age once.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.

Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Reality is what people who lack vision see.

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.