"Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit……" — Chinua Achebe
"Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble."
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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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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick…
— Julia Child
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
— Horace Mann
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while,…
— Melody Beattie
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the…
— Eric Hoffer
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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those…
— Mark Twain
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