The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
WOLE SOYINKASee, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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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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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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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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