Wole Soyinka Quotes

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

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

It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

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 particular course of action.

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.