A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen 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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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