Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Don’t be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

152. “No one can claim perfection, that’s why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

153. “You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

154. “If you have come to the point you are ready to consult spirits to know more about your life, there is nothing under the sun that you cannot do.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

155. “You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

157. “If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

159. “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

160. “A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

161. “People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

163. “Tell that incurable disease “Even if you refuse to leave me alone, when I am thrown to the fires, we will be destroyed together, and what will you have gained by not leaving me alone.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

164. “Some people quit when victory is around the corner.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

165. “The atomic bomb was created with the destruction of men in mind.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

166. “We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

167. “I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

168. “Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

169. “She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

170. “It’s useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

171. “Religious truth, government truth and corporate truth are names for more sinister things.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

172. “Dreams, just dreams, it’s all illusion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

173. “Though we are terrorized by death, it’s not different from birth, it just happens.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

174. “Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

175. “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

176. “I thought it was love. No, it wasn’t. It was marriage.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

177. “Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

179. “Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

180. “Fear of death is irrational. We all know we will die one day. But again we are irrational beings.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

186. “Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma’s they believe in.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

188. “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

189. “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

190. “Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

191. “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

192. “If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

194. “If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

195. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

198. “Loneliness is a shadow of death.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

200. “The happiest of people are the ones not yet born, but they stubbornly want to and prove that I was right all along.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana