Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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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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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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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