I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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