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.
WOLE SOYINKAI have one abiding religion-human liberty.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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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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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 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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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