When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect. Wole Soyinka More Quotes by Wole Soyinka More Quotes From Wole Soyinka I have one abiding religion-human liberty. Wole Soyinka diversity liberty justice The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other. Wole Soyinka peaceful our-world ideas A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces. Wole Soyinka tigers doe One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. Wole Soyinka methodical one-thing i-can There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. Wole Soyinka fingertips theater A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god. Wole Soyinka indifferent perspective humans After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. Wole Soyinka administration military years There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. Wole Soyinka different artist wish 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. Wole Soyinka violence office mean One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. Wole Soyinka mass movement moving The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. Wole Soyinka be-considerate aggravation novelists Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind Wole Soyinka sane running world There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Wole Soyinka special doe writing Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. Wole Soyinka play writing thinking Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. Wole Soyinka horizon important people For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity. Wole Soyinka prime humanity justice I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. Wole Soyinka pessimism depression way As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium. Wole Soyinka effort political moving My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. Wole Soyinka black-history reading struggle A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. Wole Soyinka shout acts tiger does
