Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

— Wole Soyinka

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

— Wole Soyinka

Just like birds, hunters know no borders.

— Wole Soyinka

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

— Wole Soyinka

I take friendship very seriously.

— Wole Soyinka

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

— Wole Soyinka

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

— Wole Soyinka

No human is completely fearless.

— Wole Soyinka

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

— Wole Soyinka

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

— Wole Soyinka

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

— Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

— Wole Soyinka

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

— Wole Soyinka

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

— Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Wole Soyinka

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

— Wole Soyinka

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their…

— Wole Soyinka

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the…

— Wole Soyinka

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are…

— Wole Soyinka

I am a very curious person; I'll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own…

— Wole Soyinka

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it…

— Wole Soyinka

Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically…

— Wole Soyinka

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives…

— Wole Soyinka

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so…

— Wole Soyinka

Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of…

— Wole Soyinka

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be…

— Wole Soyinka

In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and…

— Wole Soyinka

People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from…

— Wole Soyinka

When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when…

— Wole Soyinka

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for…

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Wole Soyinka

Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right…

— Wole Soyinka

As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I…

— Wole Soyinka

With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in…

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Wole Soyinka

When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He…

— Wole Soyinka

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in…

— Wole Soyinka

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.

— Wole Soyinka

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

— Wole Soyinka