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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “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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    George Orwell
    “For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists.”
    George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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    George Orwell
    “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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    George Orwell
    “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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    Roland Barthes
    “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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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

  • #10
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #11
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Reality is what people who lack vision see.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

  • #12
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

  • #13
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “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

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

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

  • #17
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “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

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “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

  • #20
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “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

  • #21
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

  • #22
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “When a joker dies, the joke remains.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

  • #23
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #24
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The best fights are those fought by those without a Plan B.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #26
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “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

  • #27
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #28
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #29
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “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



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