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.
WOLE SOYINKAVery conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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 hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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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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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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