Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes

No wonder people who believe in hell endeavor to establish it on earth

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

The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness

Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.

How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in

Genius is believing in yourself

There is no love that is not self-love

You may think you are your best friend, but at times you you may be your worst enemy

I think about God at every breath I take, I know he can stop it at any time

Avoid a problem if you can. It's too late when you try to solve it

What's the use of being good if you are not good to yourself?

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

It's useless to hold a grudge against anyone for a time will come when all will be forgotten

The fear of the other is the source of all evil

You create the future by what you do in the present

Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach

One night I was flying over my village and people looked up and said "Look Bangambiki is flying while he is a man, where did he get the wings? Get down, you are dreaming!" I answered them, "I am not a man. I am a superman, and supermen fly!" I am sure I might have fallen if I believed what they told me. Continue flying, continue dreaming, you are a superman

A faint hearted man will always be poor

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

By this age, there is almost everything you need in your life, but it isn't free, you must fight to snatch it from the cruel powerful hands that withhold it from you.

There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.

The prohibited fruit is always sweet

When I look at the multitude of the gods of the past held in esteem by great civilisations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder wether tomorrow the gods we hold in high esteem won't suffer the same fate.

False belief is more emotional than true belief

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work

Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.

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

It's not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey; it's those dangers that raise the hero in him

You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger.

Comparing yourself to others dwarfs your imagination

It's a sin only if it harms you

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

You can only make magic if you act at the right time when the right conditions are in place

If an ant looked to the towers men build, it could not dig it's own hole

Some books can only be written when winners turn into loosers

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.

The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.

Hope is to the soul what oxygen is to the body. As the body without oxygen dies, so is dead the soul without hope

The wise are always poor

A good head and a bad heart make a good politician

Slaves in the past were captured by force; today's slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized) who would not lift a hand against a fellow human being! They have established economic systems that perpetuate their superiority so the poor are blamed either for their laziness or their fate.

A good marriage can usher you into paradise, a bad one into hell

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

God is a name behind which you put the best of yourself or the worst

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

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.

I don't like perfect heroes; I can't recognize myself in them. I like flawed heroes, like me. I want to see how they struggle with their flaws and in spite of that manage to slay the dragon.

I don't like dogmas; i don't want to be kept in a box

Never attempt to please everybody; it's simply impossible. Try to please your constituency, your fans, your close friends; they will win over the unbelievers.

Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible

God's Love is unconditional. He loves you because he created you. You can be sure, His love is eternally granted.

Never give up. There is always something you can do

A bishop is a man who has two shops

We have come to an age where it is very hard to know which is truth and which is deceit

A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically

A fault is something very easy to find in others, but becomes invisible when you try to find it in yourself

You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.

Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life

Life is like a train: some are entering it to begin the trip while others are living it because the trip is over

A bad marriage is a season in hell

If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview

Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory

In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

Women's beauty is a sweet coat to something more sinister- a bribe to men to plunge into the unknown

A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything

Neighbor: the nicest enemy you will ever get

We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

Religious truth, government truth and corporate truth are names for more sinister things

There is gravity in human affairs as in the heavenly bodies. It seems anyone who wants to go up is always pulled down.

The wise don't live in Utopia, they have their feet firm on the real ground

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

I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love

The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day

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

The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate; get up and rebel against it

Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff

There are many beautiful toys on this earth. We must use them with care so that the next generation will find them intact and use them also.

Truth is like beauty; it lies in the mind of the beholder

I am nothing but the breath in and out of my nostrils, take it away and I am a slab of meat. Do whatever you set your heart to do as long as you have that breath within you, I cannot guarantee that you'll have it in the next minute. You cannot buy it or bribe somebody to give it to you

The giving hand is considered powerful; the receiving hand is considered weak. It's better to give than to receive.

A smile is a friend maker

Instead of recognizing their mistakes, some people commit crimes to hide them

To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.

Death is the great equalizer

I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours

Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.

The powerful have no conscience

A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls

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