The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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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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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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