Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “The defining moment is not losing a war, but hope.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

302. “Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

303. “There are many advices on writing. The best I know is stop reading them and start writing.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

304. “The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

305. “You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

306. “Anger turns a man into a beast.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

307. “Give me something to worship; whatever.” Cries the human soul.”

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308. “If there is heaven, atheists will be the first to put their foot there; they take time to find God personally. They risk losing everything when they decide He does not exist. While believers will swallow anything you throw at them to protect their own self-interests to get to heaven at all cost, atheists want a real God and I believe God will not disappoint such a genuine breed of human beings.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

309. “War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

310. “Even if god was proved beyond doubt that he did not exist. We would still believe in him. We don’t need hard facts, we need true emotions.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

311. “It’s ok to be mad at god when your life is miserable. It’s alright to ask for his help and to be upset when he does not answer you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

312. “Writing is magic happening on paper.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

313. “As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

314. “Isn’t time the only one true god? It makes and breaks.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

315. “As long as truth is unknown, there will be religion no matter what science proves.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

320. “Power writes history, not scribes.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

321. “Avoid a problem if you can. It’s too late when you try to solve it.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

323. “Hypocrisy is power.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

324. “Never throw away food when you have the poor near you, remember that you are an ambassador of god on earth.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

325. “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

326. “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

327. “Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

328. “People are not interested in serving, they are interested in enjoying power.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

329. “Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

330. “When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve every day because of the child you could have had.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

331. “Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

333. “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

334. “Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

335. “At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

336. “As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

337. “We are governed not by those who have the truth on their side but by those who have the power to impose their lies on us.”

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338. “A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

340. “In politics what you see is not what you get.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

344. “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

345. “No matter how great the defeat is, if I am not the one winning, the war has not ended yet.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

346. “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

347. “It’s true not because it’s beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

348. “Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

349. “There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

350. “Nobody who wants power will ever be happy. You still want more, and you have to snatch it from hands that tightly hold on it. The power hungry is in a perpetual combat to get more.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana