The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Wole Soyinka

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Topic

Political courage Tyranny

Author

Wole Soyinka

Source

The Man Died: Prison Notes

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Writer

From

Nigeria Africa

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Citation

Soyinka, Wole. "A Letter to Compatriots." The Man Died: Prison Notes. Harper & Row/Rex Collings Limited, 1972.

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I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

Pauline Kael

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Living in a bubble American politics
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Pauline Kael
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Citation

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Aristotle

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Economic inequality Decline of democracy Tyranny

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Aristotle
Source
Politics
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 4.