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"There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"...stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"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."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"I do not know how to thank you.' 'I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.' 'That will not be enough,' said Okonkwo. 'Then kill yourself,' said Obierika."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves."
Quote by -Dallas Willard
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession"
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest"
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil."
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters"
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Quote by -Daniel Webster
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."
Quote by -Daniel Webster