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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.

Wole Soyinka

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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Absolute Believe Cause Certainty Confidence Feel Must One Self Think Through
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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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
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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Accompany Beware Christ Excitation History Injustice Justice Liberate Other Righteous Tech
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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Asleep Certain Children Father Fell Gather Point Story Use
And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Accountable Beginning Democratic Fact Form Gradually More Nothing Participatory Recognize Secure
To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Achieve Change Corruption Crime Generally Materialistic Mind Reorientation Tendency Term Youth
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Absence Criticism Freedom Greatest Threat
Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Cycle Eternal Evil People Pessimistic Recognizing Say Some
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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Come Contrary Despite Even Fallacy Industrialized Pious Recognition See Statement Term World
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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Country People Person Prospect Say Yet
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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All Die Keep Man Silent Those
The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Anticipate People Visionary Warm Water
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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Always Ask Curious Person Thing True Very
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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All Book Form Suppress Terror Truth Wish Write
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Arm Conviction Danger Day Every Know Other Power Threat Wake Way Yield
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Audience Base Both Communication Effect Image Multimedia Nature Theatre Wider

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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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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