The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
WOLE SOYINKAIt’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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