It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.


Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (ed. Anchor, 2012) - ISBN: 9780307816467

Chinua Achebe Quotes

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its...

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its...

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its...

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its...