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One Quotes by Wole Soyinka
- I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
- 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…
- There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only…
- Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
- 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…
- I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that…
- If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers…
- Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed…
- Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always…
- One has to confront history honestly.
- An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to…
- Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political…
- 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…
- One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle