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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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 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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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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 man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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 don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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