Quotes by Social Critics - Page 3

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Moynihan, when he was ambassador to the United Nations, produced the same effect when he attacked the Third World. These attacks aroused great admiration here; for example, when he denounced Idi Amin of Uganda as a "racist murderer." The question is not whether Idi Amin is a racist murderer. No doubt the appellation is correct. The question is, what does it mean for Moynihan to make this accusation and for others to applaud his honesty and courage in doing so? Who is Moynihan? He served in four administrations, those of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford - that is to say, administrations that were guilty of racist murder on a scale undreamed of by Idi Amin. Imagine that some minor functionary of the Third Reich had correctly accused someone of being a racist murderer.

Noam Chomsky

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

Bill Hicks

To masturbate is to imagine: physically.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

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

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

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

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

Os Guinness

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others -- more stringent ones, in fact -- plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil

Noam Chomsky

Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing.

Paul Goodman

Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting than a bird’s droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, “This… this…”; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech but sullen to say it; baffled silence; the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

Paul Goodman

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.

Camille Paglia

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised as the source of our concern for human rights. In fact, the great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights in the contemporary sense. They were notorious not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression but for enthusiastic justifications of slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, genocide.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Noam Chomsky

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