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

152. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

155. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

157. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

160. “Nothing repels people like an angry face.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

162. “Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

163. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

168. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

176. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

179. “There is no human relationship that is not based on self-interest.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

182. “A coward is a man who’d rather live dead than die alive.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

183. “I don’t like perfect heroes; I can’t recognize myself in them. I like flawed heroes, like me. I want to see how they struggle with their flaws and in spite of that manage to slay the dragon.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

185. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

188. “Don’t be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

190. “Genius is believing in yourself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

191. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

194. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

198. “The world will not know peace until we learn to understand each other’s emotions.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

199. “Fate smiles to the bold.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana