2,446 Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.

Our ignorance has left us proud of some of the things of which we ought to be ashamed.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.

Some technologies have made it possible for one to travel to the other side of the world in order to see something, whereas some have made that unnecessary: if it were not for things such as the camera and the Internet, some African boys would have never seen a Chinese woman’s vagina.