Bangambiki Quotes

Hypocrisy is power ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

...now I ask you that marriage be kept holy. Marriage should be between man and woman, man with man, woman with woman, man with whatever thing or things he likes and woman with whatever things he likes. Those in love should respect and love each other so that god can be honored in all things. I understand that among you there are those who love strife, who despise the marriage between a man and a man and woman with a woman or man or woman with whatever things they like. Now as before, I urge you to respect everyone's choice, respect everyone's sexual orientation for god is a god of freedom not a god of bondage, remember you are not saved by who you marry or by what you marry but by the grace of our lord. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble! ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The merchants of hope will never go out of business ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

The worst threat to man is man himself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The powerful have no conscience ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him? ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never give up. There is always something you can do ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you think you can you are half there ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Many people are praying and their prayers go unanswered. Imagine if you decided to step in your role as a god and resolved to answer their prayers. How many prayers would be answered from now on? But no, you also keep your face hidden like other careless gods and keep your ears closed to their clamor. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Power writes history, not scribes ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Death is the great equalizer ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
She takes care of you when you are still in her womb.
She nurtures you after you are born.
She hurts when you fall,
She celebrates when you make your first steps.
She is the only person who genuinely cares about you.
She loves you as she loves herself.
Her heart is your true paradise.
I love you mama. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

What someone considers a sin is someone else's virtue ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of citizens who accept to live under the same law. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Neighbor: the state next door ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Gods are like culture, the most known and powerful are those believed by powerful nations ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be happy when people envy you, you are on the right path ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

False belief is more emotional than true belief ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Women want to enjoy life today, men hope for a better tomorrow ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Despair is the source of all evil ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Remember that when you are busy living your life others are busy leaving it ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't blame humanity for being weak, it's still growing up ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Life is good for dreamers, if you are awake you're missing on some great fun ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is no love that is not self-love ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

We are world citizens, but tribal chiefs won't let us cross the frontier ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You believe it can't happen to you until it does, and it's too late ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's a war of visions and dreams, none of which is substantiated, in the end only the ones best published and adhered to by the most powerful will be known as the supreme truth, the rest will be trampled underfoot. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not aiming to become anyone or anything but my full self ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world? ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Everybody would be a dictator if he could. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A good head and a bad heart make a good politician ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When we were born, we were thrown off to land on earth. The successful kept calm and created their wings on their way down. The losers were busy complaining against the creator why he did not give wings to them knowing they had to fly. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing closes doors as quickly as constant bad humor, reclamation, whining. Nobody wants to associate themselves with losers. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You don't get what you want, you get what you can ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

You create the future by what you do in the present ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Live as if you have already lived and died, now do what you ever wanted to in an earlier life ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Loneliness is a shadow of death ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Soldier= sacrifice on the altar of power ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

It's not a miracle you need; you need a change of attitude ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The arms race is a race to death's arms ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The harder life is, the closer to life we are ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

The prohibited fruit is always sweet ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can't find the time, it's not important for you ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A faint hearted man will always be poor ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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