A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
CHINUA ACHEBEIn dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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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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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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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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