Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

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.

A belief is an uneducated guess.

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

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

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

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

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

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

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

You can only be twice someone’s age once.

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

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.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

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

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

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

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

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

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

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.

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

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

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

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

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?

A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.

Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Life’s most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.