Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
WOLE SOYINKADon’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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