"...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run……" — Chinua Achebe
"...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly."
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
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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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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
- 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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