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Wole Soyinka Quotes

«The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.»
«Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind»
«The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.»
Author: Wole Soyinka (Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: dips
«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.»
«[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours.»
«Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.»
«It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.»
«Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment. There is more than enough evidence to warrant his impeachment.»
«Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.»
«We are moving towards a total mockery of constitutionalism. The president has crossed the line of political toleration.»