Quotes by Social Critics - Page 4

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.
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Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.
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We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.
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Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.
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There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.
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Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex.
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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
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Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.
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Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
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The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.
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The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.
Noam Chomsky
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.
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The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.
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Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.
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We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
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Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.
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It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.
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When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.
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Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
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It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
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It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
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You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.
Noam Chomsky
We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.
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Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.
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Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
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When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.
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Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.
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Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
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Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
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Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.
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He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.
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There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.
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Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.
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Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.
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Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.
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The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.
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Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
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Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
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Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.
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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
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A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.
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If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.
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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
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Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana