Top 500 Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

403. “Power writes history, not scribes.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

408. “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

409. “Planning is worrying based on facts.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

418. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

423. “Don’t be afraid to fail, nobody is perfect, stumble on.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

428. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

432. “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

433. “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

434. “I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

435. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

438. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

441. “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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

444. “Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

445. “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

446. “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

447. “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

448. “Jealousy is an attempt to hold by force what you know you can’t hold by merit.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

449. “By your behavior you send signals on how people should treat you.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

450. “Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana