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.
WOLE SOYINKAMy 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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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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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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