For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
WOLE SOYINKAIntolerance 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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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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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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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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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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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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 man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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