"Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Choices Quotes #Culture Quotes #Degradation Quotes

“What I'm trying to do is paint a picture of an atypical human being going through all of the existential struggles, but all the while realizing the carnality and small things, because I like minutiae a lot. All the while knowing that it's a forest - knowing that none of it means anything. I think if more people understood that, they would just go ahead and kill themselves like they're gonna do anyway, but do it quickly as opposed to hanging out and using up resources. Don't just sit around criticizing other people and wasting time. I do that, but I'm not really skilled in any other way.”
“I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.”
“Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.”
“Hiding is for amateurs.”
“Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.”
“Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with”

Source : Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.
“Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.”
“Each man kills the thing he loves.”

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