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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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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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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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