Chinua Achebe Quotes

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

An historian's task is to extol the famous deeds of famous men in order to incite the hearts of mankind to virtue, but to veil in silence the dark deeds of the base or. if they are drawn into the light, by the telling to place them on record to terrify the minds of those same mortals.

We shall have to fight the politician who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.

In the final analysis we all inhabit the same planet, we all breath the same air, we all cherish our children’s future, and we are all mortal.

In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it.

We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.