Quote by Chinua Achebe
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont 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 Achebe

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton, letter to Mary Gladstone, 24 April 1881

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