Quotes by South African Authors - Page 10

People say all the time that they’d do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don’t know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don’t think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It’s something the child has to learn.
Trevor Noah
A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.
Pieter-Dirk Uys
To be loved, is to be immortal.
Lynette Ferreira
Everyone dies, but does everyone really live?
Johan Coetzer
I've had plentiful opportunities for great things. Just didn't open my eyes.
Johan Coetzer
Don’t stop searching for opportunities until opportunities find you.
Gift Gugu Mona
The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.
Alex Latimer
Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.
Christina Engela
If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out
Chimnese Davids
No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.
Damon Galgut
Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas – or your fuel cap – another hard to find item if lost!
Christina Engela
It must be wonderful to be you, Dominic, and know that you alone have shaped yourself. It must be even more wonderful for other people, your mother and even God Himself for all I know, to know that. It absolves them of a terrible responsibility.
Jayne Bauling
The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others.
Gift Gugu Mona
Our community deserves leaders who should know what debates and arguments are better conducted out of the public eye, instead of dumping their baskets of dirty laundry all over the internet. Our community deserves leaders who do not put political expedience or convenience before their commitments to those they supposedly represent. Our community deserves leaders who do not make about-turns on issues such as freedom of speech and accountability to the community they serve when it becomes too embarrassing for them, or too uncomfortable. Our community deserves leaders who can and want to work together, not fling their handbags at each other, hissing like drama queens.
Christina Engela
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
Nelson Mandela
Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.
Nelson Mandela
Time did exist here, in small amounts (well some of the time) – and there were feint eddies and currents of time here, things that were barely tangible. Feint forces of the universe they were, nearly indiscernible from the nothingness like a warm breeze on a hot summer night. How long he had been here, he knew not – but he was slowly learning to master these barely tangible waves like a new surfer with one foot on the sandy beach and the other on a shiny new board of Hatred. Revenge splashed around his feet like the cold waves of the ocean of Time. Nearby, two other inmates collided with each other, bounced apart spread-eagled and spiraled off into the distance in infinite slowness. The Wetsuit of Insanity clung to his spiritual body, isolating him from the timelessness that seemed to exist here. A wind of Change blew at him from behind and he pushed off from the beach with iron determination and a mental clarity hereto before unknown to him. Something in the microcosm that didn’t even have a name went ‘bling’ and against all the laws of probability, Brad Xyl opened his eyes.
Christina Engela
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.
Graeme Smith
Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.
Damon Galgut
The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.
Errol Anthony Smythe
A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You can only be twice someone’s age once.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't act my age, I act my personality.
Khaya Dlanga
A murderer is a killer without a uniform.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.
Nelson Mandela
It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.
Nelson Mandela
It would seem that the right to equality and human rights is far more an exclusive thing than an inclusive thing.
Christina Engela
While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them.
Christina Engela
Dominating others is not equality.
Christina Engela
The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because obviously if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore.
Christina Engela
I guess we all feel we're in control and we are, until we're not. The problem is that seldom can we tell when it is that we step over the precipice of no return - and then for most of us it is to late.
Braam Malherbe
Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.
Wilma Stockenström
Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt.
Unarine Ramaru
We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.
Tarryn Fisher
Soon it would be his turn. Kaine wondered how he would meet Death. His ship was a mess, in every sense of the word. Systems were in disarray, damaged equipment malfunctioning, and control panels shattered by blaster-fire littered the decks. In the fighting, severe hull damage had caused parts of the ship to be sealed off. Dead bodies – or raw red chunks of them – lay everywhere. The corridors were dark where the lights had failed. His footsteps echoed eerily as he ran down them. He’d been on the run for what felt like days. He felt naked, his tattered, sweat-drenched tunic clinging to his body, especially under his breastplate. Fatigue had caused him to discard his body amour. It was of no realistic use anyway, and just made him hotter and sweatier, made stealthy movement more difficult – and weighed him down.
Christina Engela
I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.
Lynn Freed
The only good cage is an empty cage.
Lawrence Anthony
But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.
Lawrence Anthony
No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?
J.M. Coetzee
This is what I find so strange: we are not necessarily kind to animals. We use them, we eat them. But we don’t like them to suffer. Yet humans must. They have to wait for the great Vet himself to decide how long their anguish must last and how deep it must reach. And He has, as far as I can see, a habit of waiting a long, long time before deciding to end their misery.
Beverly Rycroft
Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focused totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.
Lawrence Anthony
But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris.
Ceridwen Dovey
Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals.
Christina Engela
A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu
Nelson Mandela
I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the life that we are forced to live. Everyone deserves to lead the life they want to and not what is prescribed for them. We must be who we want to be. In this we must be happy.I am also tired of seeing black people fight to live. This is what drives my activism. I literally (as clichéd as it sounds), dream of a moment where we can be free to exist as we want to.
Malebo Sephodi
Revolution?” Arno laughed. “What happened wasn’t a revolution. It was a deal. The creation of a new bunch of entrepreneurs who could be more easily manipulated by international capital.
Harry Kalmer
Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
Andrew Murray
Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.
Christina Engela
Voting for a political party with a cross stuck on it doesn't mean it reflects true Christianity (at least not how Christ intended it) nor does 'biblical governance' guarantee Christian governance.
Christina Engela
In the Gospel story we find five great points of special importance; the birth, the life on earth, the death, the resurrection, and the ascension. In these we have what an old writer has called "the process of Jesus Christ;" the process by which He became what He is to-day--our glorified King, and our life. In all this life process we must be made like unto Him.
Andrew Murray
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.
Andrew Murray