Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

Growing up is childish.

Overrated is order.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

The rich are poor without the poors acknowledgment of money.

The definition of Employment by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.