"A cowardly critique starts with a compliment."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Critique, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

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"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Critique, Criticism, Truth, Observation, Understanding

"The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit."

Girdhar Joshi, Indian Author

Critique, Literature, Memory, Reflection, Regret

"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Critique, Punishment, God, Cancer, Smoking

"Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Critique, Progress, Illusion, Distraction, Invention

"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Critique, Disgust, Authenticity, Language, Reaction

"Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Critique, Graduates, Certificates, Job, Enslavement

"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Critique, Miracles, Gospel, Selfish, Egocentric

"Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Critique, Observation, Truth, Feminism, Culture

"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Critique, Miracle, Gospel, Mentality, Instant Gratification

"Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Critique, Meetings, Ideas, Satisfaction, Inaction

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

"The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit."

"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."

"Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them."

"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."

"Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job."

"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."

"Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters."

"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality."

"Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation."

Explore more quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."

"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."

"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."