"The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is……" — Chinua Achebe
"The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!"
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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