Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Don’t be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

203. “It’s useless to be as angry as to kill a man; you become responsible of killing someone who would have died of his own accord.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

204. “Hypocrisy is power.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

205. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

215. “Don’t be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

216. “Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god’s representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

218. “An angry enemy is a conquered enemy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

219. “There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

220. “Fate smiles to the bold.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

221. “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

222. “When you reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge that there is none but you to take care of yourself, you discover that you are the god you had all along sought and that you have no redeemer but you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

223. “We don’t know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

225. “Our thoughts shape how we behave.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

226. “The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

227. “Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

228. “Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

229. “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

230. “A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

231. “I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

233. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

235. “Don’t ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

236. “You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

237. “It’s hard to live in a man’s world when you are not the only woman in it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

238. “Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

241. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

245. “There is no wise man who has not suffered in his life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

246. “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

247. “They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

248. “Think of your life not as a disappearing horizon, but as an approaching hope.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

249. “An optimist is actually a pessimist well prepared for all eventualities, not a blind adventurer.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

250. “A faint hearted man will always be poor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana