Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaThe world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaMost sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaJust 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 MokhonoanaMore often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaAs an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaGreed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaSome people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaThey burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow.
— Lauren BeukesIf we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana