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#1

“If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: 'To fight against Fascism,' and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: 'Common decency.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#2

“For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#3

“There was no boss-class, no menial-class, no beggars, no prostitutes, no lawyers, no priests, no boot-licking, no cap-touching.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#4

“Philosophically, Communism and Anarchism are poles apart. Practically—i.e. in the form of society aimed at—the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist’s emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist’s on liberty and equality.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#5

“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

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#6

“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affable, alone, amicable, anchoress, anchorite, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, antisocial, approachable, ascetic, by-oneself, chummy, cloistered, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionless, convivial, cordial, eremite, extrovert, forthcoming, friendless, friendly, genial, gregarious, hail-fellow-well-met, hermit, hermitic, incommunicado, introvert, isolate, isolation, lone-wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, misanthrope, misanthropy, on-one-s-own, open, outgoing, recluse, reclusive, responsive, seclude, secluded, sociable, solitarian, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unsociable, warm, withdrawn

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#7

“Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: admiration, facebook, illusion, social-networks

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#8

“12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: break, employees, employment, food, herd-mentality, job, lunch, slavery, work

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#9

“Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: attitude, culture, death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, indoctrination, pain, perception

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#10

“Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: degree, diploma, dream, education, failure, give-up, plan-b, qualifications, success

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#11

“Reality is what people who lack vision see.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

tags: idealism, idealists, reality, utopia, vision

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#12

“Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

tags: low-self-esteem, self-esteem, shy, shyness, symptom

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#13

“He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: countries, geography, military, patriotism, soldiers, the-navy, war

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#14

“If everybody was treated like they matter — everyday; birthdays wouldn’t be so *special.*”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: birthday

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#15

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, appear, appearance, attire, attitude, attitudes, be-nice-be-nicer, clothes, clothing, consumerism, deceive, fail, failure, fake, families, family, family-member, family-members, fool, foolish, fools, friend, friends, humor, humour, impression, impressions, insult, insults, intellect, intelligence, intelligent, looks-can-be-deceiving, made-it, make-it, materialism, money, nice, poor, poverty, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, rich, riches, satire, stupid, stupidity, succeed, success, successful, wealth, wealthy

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#16

“Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: ambition, branding, consumerism, general-semantics, greed, materialism, semantics

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#17

“A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: buddies, enemies, enemy, fake-friend, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, true-friend, true-friends

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#18

“To see a man’s true colours, tell him that you don’t plan on having sex with him. To see a woman’s true colours, tell her that you don’t plan on marrying her.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: marriage, marriage-humor, sex

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#19

“Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: censorship, free-press, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, journalism, offend, offended, offensive

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#20

“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bachelor, bachelors, birth, born, boyfriend, boyfriends, breakup, breakups, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, divorce, divorces, epigram, epigrams, ex, exes, father, fatherhood, fathers, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, married, maxim, maxims, mom, moms, mother, mothers, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, relationships, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, single, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trouble, troubled, wife, wives, world

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#21

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

tags: beliefs, genocide, ideologies, massacre, religion, science, war, warfare, weapons, weapons-of-mass-destruction

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#22

“When a joker dies, the joke remains.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

tags: death, joke, joker

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#23

“You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: failure, friends, name-dropping, show-off, success

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#24

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: airhead, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, around-the-bend, ass, bad, bad-people, bad-person, bananas, batty, birdbrain, blockhead, bonkers, boob, bozo, brainless, buggy, bushed, certifiable, chowderhead, chowderheaded, chump, clod, coot, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cretin, cuckoo, daft, dead-loss, demented, deranged, dim, dimwit, dimwitted, dingbat, dipstick, disappointment, disturbed, ditz, dolt, donkey, dope, dork, dud, dullard, dumb, dumb-ass, dumb-cluck, dumbhead, dumbo, dumdum, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fail, failure, fathead, flake, fool, foolhardy, foolish, funny, galoot, goat, goober, goof, goofball, goofus, goon, half-baked, halfwit, halfwitted, harebrained, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, ill-considered, imbecile, impolitic, imprudent, incautious, informal-no-hoper, injudicious, insane, insanity, jerk, joke, jokes, jughead, klutz, lamebrain, loco, loony, loopy, loser, lummox, mad, mad-as-a-hatter, meatball, mentally-disordered, mentally-ill, mindless, moron, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, non-compos-mentis, not-all-there, numbnuts, numbskull, nuts, of-unsound-mind, pea-brained, peabrain, psycho, psychotic, putz, quotations, quotes, rash, reckless, sap, satire, schizophrenic, schlemiel, schlep, schmuck, screwy, silly, simpleton, stark-raving-mad, stupid, thick, thickhead, thoughtless, turkey, twerp, twit, unbalanced, underachiever, unhinged, unintelligent, unstable, unwise, wacko, witless, wooden-headed, write-off, zombie

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#25

“The best fights are those fought by those without a Plan B.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: give-up, plan-b

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#26

“An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: degree, diploma, education, employment, job, money, prostitution, sex, vagina, work

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#27

“98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: drink, drunk, horny, lies, promises, sex

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#28

“Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: advertising, brainwashed, brainwashing, culture, indoctrination, marketing, materlialsm, nature, nature-vs-culture, nature-vs-nurture, needs, propaganda, society, wants

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#29

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, attitude, axiom, axioms, bitch, bitches, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, disability, disabled, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, please, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, society, south-africa, south-african, subhuman, thought-provoking, thoughtful, upset, upsetting

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