Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Your true beliefs are known in agony.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

203. “Power writes history, not scribes.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

205. “I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

206. “Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

207. “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

208. “Somethings are simply better left the way they are.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

209. “The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

210. “Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

211. “Politicians look for interests not people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

213. “If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don’t wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

215. “Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

216. “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

217. “If you want a meaningful life for yourself don’t ask “What can the world offer to me?” but “What can I offer to the world?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

218. “If you present yourself as food, you will be eaten.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

219. “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

220. “Every successful writer is bleeding somewhere, has a thorn in his flesh or suffers from some delusion. The most successful are the most suffering.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

221. “No, it’s not advertising; it’s mind control.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

223. “Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

224. “In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created “me”.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

225. “The dictator says “You are allowed to think as you want” but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

226. “True understanding lies beyond the desert.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

227. “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

228. “Forgive your enemies but don’t forget what they did to you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

229. “Love is like life; when you stop to think about it and analyse the parts that make it, the genie escapes from the bottle.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

230. “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

231. “When you die you lose nothing, you are deprived of nothing. It becomes like before you were born and had nothing. You are deprived of something you wanted and you can only feel and want things if your senses work perfectly. The dead can’t feel anything.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

232. “Reason is the gatekeeper, but it cannot resist the rushing torrents of emotion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

233. “The defining moment is not losing a war, but hope.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

235. “Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

237. “Beware of somebody who suddenly begins to call you “friend”.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

238. “If anyone rises to power, it’s not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren’t destined for the honor.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

239. “Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

240. “Compare yourself to others for inspiration not competition.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

242. “Failure is an opportunity to learn again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

243. “I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

244. “There is time for a fight and a time for a flight; knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

245. “I wrote a “holy book” as a fun way to test if I could and see if people could believe in it, before long people told me they were seeing visions of the gods and afterlife I had described. People had really strong faith in the scriptures I had written. Of course I insisted they were inspired. And they believed it. You can’t imagine how gullible people can be.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

246. “Truth is emotional, it is based on vested interests. A lie that defends my interests is the absolute truth, but truth that goes against my survival is a pure lie. We know the objective truth, but we smear it, tarnish it and assassinate it if it speaks against our wellbeing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

247. “Even our friendship with ourselves will end. A day is coming when you and yourself will be split apart and will never be able to meet again.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

248. “Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana