Mahatma Ghandi Quotes (13 quotes)

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

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“In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

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“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, charity, compassion, empathy, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, good, humanity, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, philosopher, philosophy, satire, selfishness, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, unselfishness

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“We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, charity, compassion, empathy, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, humanity, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, mother-teresa, motivation, motive, motives, nelson-mandela, pain, philosopher, philosophy, pleasure, satire, satirist, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, unselfish, unselfishness

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“*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, charity, compassion, economy, empathy, euphemism, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, humanity, humor, humour, infedelity, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, money, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, payment, philosopher, philosophy, poverty, profit, prostitutes, prostitution, rape, rapist, rapists, reward, satire, satirist, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, tax, teresa, unselfish, unselfishness, victim, victims

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“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, charity, compassion, debt, divorce, empathy, fail, failure, feed, food, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, humanity, humor, humour, job, kitchen, loss, love, lover, lovers, mahatma-ghandi, man, mandela, marriage, men, mercy, mortgage, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, nutrition, occupation, partner, partners, philosopher, philosophy, poverty, rent, rental, satire, satirist, security, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, social-criticism, spouse, spouses, starvation, stomach, sympathy, teresa, tummy, unemployment, unselfish, unselfishness, woman, women

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“Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, boy, boys, charity, compassion, empathy, female, females, friendship, friendships, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, girl, girls, humanity, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, male, males, man, mandela, men, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, philosopher, philosophy, proposal, propose, satire, satirist, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, unselfish, unselfishness

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“The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, bad, charity, compassion, empathy, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, good, hate, hatred, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, philosopher, philosophy, problem, satire, selfishness, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, unselfishness

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“No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, bad, charity, compassion, empathy, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, good, humanity, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, philosopher, philosophy, satire, selfishness, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, unselfishness

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“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, charity, compassion, concern, empathy, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, humanity, humor, humour, label, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, philosopher, philosophy, satire, satirist, selfishness, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, symptoms, teresa, unselfishness

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“It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

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“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: advantage, altruism, benefit, charity, compassion, empathy, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, humanity, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, object, philosopher, philosophy, pleasure, satire, satirist, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, unselfish, unselfishness

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“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, breakup, breakups, charity, compassion, debt, divorce, empathy, fail, failure, feed, food, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, heart, hearts, humanity, humor, humour, job, kitchen, loss, love, lover, lovers, mahatma-ghandi, man, mandela, marriage, men, mercy, mortgage, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, nutrition, occupation, partner, partners, philosopher, philosophy, poverty, rent, rental, romance, satire, satirist, security, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, social-criticism, spouse, spouses, starvation, stomach, sympathy, teresa, tummy, unemployment, unselfish, unselfishness, woman, women

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