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!
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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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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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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