I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
WOLE SOYINKAPower is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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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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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 media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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 have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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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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