Quote by Wole Soyinka
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka

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Im not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That Ive never understood. – Wole Soyinka

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Morning
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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

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Freedom
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But when youre 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 its amazing. – Wole Soyinka

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amazing
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands societys care. – Camille Paglia

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power

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. – Joseph Prince

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power

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. – John F. Kennedy

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power

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didnt betray it Id be ashamed of myself. – Noam Chomsky

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power

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Back then, I didnt have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isnt enough time. – Joni Mitchell

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. – David Herbert Lawrence

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