Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 6

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

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them

The powerful hate truth that put them in bad light

I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again

Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry

There is no love that is not self-love

Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak

Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire

I don't criticise the free choice of others, and I ask others do the same to me

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

The instinct of self-preservation is above all the laws

If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.

World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

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

Politics preys on people's naivety

When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

They succeed not because they are perfect but because they do not let their imperfections stand in their way to success.

Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.

Everybody would be a dictator if he could.

Reason is not always reasonable

Don't fear mistakes, they are your stepping stone to success

Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact

No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs

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

Loneliness is a shadow of death

When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet

Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever

Success sits on a mountain of mistakes

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 powerful are like a compressor, they will grind into paste everything on their way

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life

Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness

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

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

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.

It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.

No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.

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

Sex is too sweet to speak about, you must only do it

Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us

Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you

Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate.

Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, you have to run after them and if per chance you find them, they are distorted

False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known

When you believe it, you've created it, whatever it is

Love has its own eyes, and they are more efficient at the beginning and faulty at the end

They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.

Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.

I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion

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

Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety.