“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”

— Wole Soyinka · Courage quote

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. — Wole Soyinka quote card
Playwright, Nobel laureate · 1934

Nigerian playwright and poet; the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986).

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