"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
― Wole Soyinka
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Power
More From Wole Soyinka
- "The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
- "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."
- "There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?"
More In Power
- "The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life."― Jon Meacham
- "I believe in the power of weakness."― Pat Buckley
- "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."― Arthur Schopenhauer