Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

102. “To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

103. “Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

104. “Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

105. “Never attempt to please everybody; it’s simply impossible. Try to please your constituency, your fans, your close friends; they will win over the unbelievers.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

106. “Nature is blind. When it hits, it hits whatever is in its path.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

107. “If you believe that the world is conspiring against you, it will just do that.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

108. “Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

109. “There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

110. “I am thankful for every breath I take, I am perfectly aware that every time I take a breath someone somewhere loses it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

111. “A bad marriage is a season in hell.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

112. “True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

113. “All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

114. “Death is the great equalizer.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

115. “There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

116. “Sometimes I reach the highest heights of hope, at other times I reach the deepest of despair. Sometimes I am happy, at other times I am sad. At some point I am a believer, and at some other time an unbeliever. Sometimes I love, some other times I hate. That’s what it means to be human.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

117. “People don’t only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don’t say and say what they don’t mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

118. “Simple minded people find simple solutions to their problems.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

119. “If you aren’t destroying your enemies, it’s because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

120. “Great story tellers are great liars. None of those complex characters, events and settings are anything but the figments of their own imaginations.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

121. “Success sits on a mountain of mistakes.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

122. “Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That’s life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

123. “You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

124. “You can break my bone, but you can’t break my spirit without my permission.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

125. “Don’t go into the business of pleasing people. You can’t please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

126. “Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

127. “I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

128. “Jealousy looks like love but it is actually police trying to capture a prisoner on the run.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

129. “If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of citizens who accept to live under the same law.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

130. “Some theologians will tell you that God’s love is unconditional but... Forget the “but”. God has no “buts and no ifs”. God loves you unconditionally; his love is eternal and has no limits.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

131. “Blood thirsty has nothing to do with guns and swords, it has all to do with vindictive inclinations.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

132. “The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

133. “When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

134. “Nobody does anything for the good of others; but as he pursues his own interests, he is brought to work unwittingly for the benefit of the many.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

135. “In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

136. “The lazy one says “Everything has been said and done, I have nothing to add.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

137. “A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

138. “Loneliness is a shadow of death.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

139. “It’s the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog’s life in god’s world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

140. “Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

141. “We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

142. “Doubt is the first ray of illumination.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

143. “You don’t need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

144. “A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

145. “Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

146. “Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

147. “I used to say why save money if I’ll die tomorrow, I haven’t died yet and I have nothing to survive on.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

148. “Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

149. “Don’t be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

150. “A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana