Humanity Quotes by Wole Soyinka

9 Humanity quotes by Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka’s nine brief statements on humanity carry his signature lyrical intensity. This short set captures the essence of his literary vigor without overwhelming the reader.

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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

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Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

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Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall…

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One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in…

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Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply…

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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the…

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which…

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Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the…

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The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

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One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as…

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One has to confront history honestly.

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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War…

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I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

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The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what…

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I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…

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