South African Quotes
South African Quote of the day
The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.
Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.
Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.
Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.
In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.