Quotes by Social Critics - Page 11

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
Noam Chomsky
A belief is an uneducated guess.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one’s Tuesday.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky
We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A blank cheque kills creativity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
Bill Hicks
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
Noam Chomsky
In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky
So the organisation of society on the basis of functions, instead of on the basis of rights, implies three things. It means, first, that proprietary rights shall be maintained when they are accompanied by the performance of service and abolished when they are not. It means, second, that the producers shall stand in a direct relation to the community for whom production is carried on, so that their responsibility to it may be obvious and unmistakable, not lost, as at present, through their immediate subordination to shareholders whose interest is not service but gain. It means, in the third place, that the obligation for the maintenance of the service shall rest upon the professional organisations of those who perform it, and that, subject to the supervision and criticism of the consumer, those organisations shall exercise so much voice in the government of industry as may be needed to secure that the obligation is discharged.
R.H. Tawney
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.
Albert Jay Nock
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Camille Paglia
There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.
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Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.
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My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.
Camille Paglia
In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.
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To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).
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Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy.
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A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Dating a wo/man with a kid is the new adoption.
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Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.
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When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.
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Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
Cornel West
The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
88% of women love making their first love making incident with a man seem like an accident.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant.
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Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The second orgasm has a biblical connotation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some women sleep their way to the top. Most men sleep their way to the bottom.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the world.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of prostitution.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Compared with lesbians, gays seem to be more unapologetic about their sexual orientation. The former must not have balls.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To see a man’s true colours, tell him that you don’t plan on having sex with him. To see a woman’s true colours, tell her that you don’t plan on marrying her.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm.
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