Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Seeking wisdom will make you unhappy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

302. “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

303. “True understanding lies beyond the desert.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

304. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

306. “There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

307. “The mind’s health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

309. “You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

311. “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

312. “Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

313. “The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

315. “Unless you have completely destroyed your enemy, your survival is precarious.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

316. “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

317. “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

318. “Politicians know it’s a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

322. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

324. “Fate smiles to the bold.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

326. “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

327. “Hypocrisy is power.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

328. “Formally and officially we are equal before the law, we enjoy the same rights as citizens but informally and unofficially that’s another matter altogether.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

329. “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

330. “The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

331. “You think you know the truth. You no longer want to hold it from public gaze, you reveal it to simple souls who can’t manage it and you lead them into unbelief, then you are left with a mob of monsters you do not know what to do with.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

332. “If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

333. “Neighbor: the nicest enemy you will ever get.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

334. “Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

335. “We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

336. “A lie is the truth told to the ear that seeks to hear what is not destined to.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

337. “To hell with hell, God is Love.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

338. “An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

340. “Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

341. “The prohibited fruit is always sweet.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

342. “The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

343. “Love is better than any weapon; all you have to do is keep it burning in the heart of the victim. He will do whatever you ask him to do.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

344. “I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can’t take in the strong content they provide.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

345. “Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people’s interests.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

346. “Truth is like beauty; it lies in the mind of the beholder.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

347. “We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

349. “To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

350. “Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don’t limit yourself to your own means.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana