Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

402. “I don’t care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

406. “It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

407. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

409. “Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

410. “Power writes history, not scribes.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

411. “Most politicians are like hurricanes. They know their path and their destination. Woe to anyone standing on their way!”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

412. “War is the use of muscle where the brain has failed.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

414. “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

415. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

418. “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

419. “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

420. “Planning is worrying based on facts.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

423. “Love is a sweet dream until the hand of reality wakes you up.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

424. “Despair is the source of all evil.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

427. “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.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

430. “Pain is a constant reminder of our mortality.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

431. “You need pain to wake you up and ponder on the meaning of life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

434. “I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

435. “Don’t tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

436. “You should never consider finished a war you did not win.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

437. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

439. “We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

440. “Instead of recognizing their mistakes, some people commit crimes to hide them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

441. “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

442. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

444. “The power of a woman is in her beauty. Show it off every time you have the chance.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

445. “Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

446. “It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to value those less fortunate than you are.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

447. “A dog knows and respects his master; men respect their masters only under duress, envy them and plot their downfall.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

448. “Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

449. “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

450. “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