The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
WOLE SOYINKABooks and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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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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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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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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