Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

153. “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

154. “It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

155. “A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

156. “Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

157. “Physical absence does not always mean emotional absence, many times more physical absence means more emotional presence.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

159. “Political correctness is euphemism for “fear to speak truth to authority.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

160. “A smile is a friend maker.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

161. “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

162. “Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

163. “If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

164. “If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

165. “Our minds are a battle ground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

166. “Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

167. “Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

170. “Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

171. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

174. “Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god’s work by sending them to hell.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

175. “People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

176. “The only way to stop a nightmare is to open your eyes, if perchance you realize you were dreaming.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

177. “When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

178. “You are received the way you present yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

179. “Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

181. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

183. “Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it’s an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

184. “God created you without asking, he will take your life away without asking, he will save you without asking.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

185. “Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

186. “Visionaries will always meet opposition from weak minds but the seeds they plant always save the world.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

188. “If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

189. “Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

190. “Genius is believing in yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

191. “Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

192. “Never compare your love life from what you read or watched in a movie. Those are carefully thought about, yours on the good will of fate.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

193. “Hypocrisy is power.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

195. “The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

196. “There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

197. “It’s not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

198. “Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

199. “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

200. “Don’t wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana