"There is that great proverb — that until……" — Chinua Achebe
"There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
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Chinua Achebe
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour…
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're…
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It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be…
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Prayer gives you opportunity to praise God and to request His divine intervention in your life and/or the lives of…
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at…
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When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
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The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of…
— Edith Stein
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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those…
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