Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
WOLE SOYINKAPower is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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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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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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