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Quotes from Anthills of the Savannah — Chinua Achebe

1930–2013 Nigeria

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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Do your people have a proverb about a man looking for something inside the bag of a man looking for something?

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

The guilty suffers; the sufferer is guilty. As for the righteous, those whose arms are straight, they will always prosper!

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

My people have a saying which my father often used. A man whose horse is missing will look everywhere even in the roof.

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Charity is the opium of the privileged

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chinua Achebe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.