"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
-Wole Soyinka
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"Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.“
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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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"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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"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
-Wole Soyinka
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"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."
-Wole Soyinka
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
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"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
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