Quotes by Social Critics - Page 2

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

Noam Chomsky

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

Bill Hicks

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Overrated is order.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting.

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

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

Cornel West

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?

Bill Hicks

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

Russell Kirk

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

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

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Speaking about work isn’t working.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.

Noam Chomsky

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.

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

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Arthur Schlesinger

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Arthur Schlesinger

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.

Bill Hicks

Growing up is childish.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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