Wole Soyinka Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.

  Wole Soyinka

  Taken, Thinking, Names

• We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, World, Matter

  "Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. December 4, 2012.

• My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

  Wole Soyinka

  Struggle, Reading, Black History

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 09, 2015

• For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Humanity, Prime

• Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.

  Wole Soyinka

  Children, Reading, School

• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, Theatre, Sake

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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