"There is no story that is not true,……" — Chinua Achebe
"There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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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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More Abomination Quotes
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built…
— Unknown Author
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have…
— Bertrand Russell
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and…
— Barack Obama
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be…
— Oscar Romero
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty…
— Alexander Cockburn
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It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
— Marlon Riggs
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
— Horace Kephart
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we…
— Dwight L. Moody
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