Quotes from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

The continuation of man's life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

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

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

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.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

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.

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.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

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.

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