# Quote — Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

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

- Author: [Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md)
- Book: [Anthills of the Savannah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/anthills-of-the-savannah.md)
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> Do your people have a proverb about a man looking for something inside the bag of a man looking for something?

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> [W]hatever you are is never enough; you must find a way to accept something, however small, from the other to make you whole and to save you from the mortal sin of righteousness and extremism. (p. 154)

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

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