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.
WOLE SOYINKAWe live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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