Wole Soyinka Quotes

Surely it is too much to ask a man to give up his own soil.

A King does not become a menial just because he puts down his crown to eat.

These rites of the dead. I do not know why you take them on,"

It is time to commence the mental shifts for admittance to yet another irrational world of adults and their discipline

[T]he PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

When the dog hides a bone does he not throw up sand?

The ground that man walks on, has it not always been there?

England is a cesspit. England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it. Remember, that country was the breeding ground for communism, too. Karl Marx did all his work in libraries there....We should assemble all those who are pure and cannot abide other faiths, put them all in rockets, and fire them into space.....A virus has attacked the world of sense and sensibility, and it has spread to Nigeria....The assumption of power over life and death then passed to every single inconsequential Muslim in the world-as if someone had given them a new stature...Al Qaeda is the descendent of this phenomenon. The proselytization of Islam became vigorous after this. People went to Saudi Arabia. Madrassas were established everywhere.

Envy, but not from prowess of his adze.

Power comes from bending Nature to your will.

Man is a bird without wings and a tree without roots.

It is a mindless clown who dispenses thanks as a fowl scatters meal not caring where it falls.

The world is big, but the dead are bigger