Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka
More from: Wole Soyinka
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life. -
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. -
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. -
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream. -
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
More quotes by Wole Soyinka
- But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
- But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
- And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
- But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
- The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.