Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 6

Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Somethings are simply better left the way they are.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him," thunders the fanatic
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Give the world what it wants and it will give you what you want
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths
Bangambiki Habyarimana
My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highest form of politics with me. That’s why I don't understand her ways. I think I need to do a bit of political science to understand her
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
River of life will always flow from The Church.”― Dr Paul Gitwaza
Paul Gitwaza
Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You don't have to finish today, what is important is that you finish. But remember today might be the last day of your life.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The poor eats with his eyes, the rich with his mouth.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Power hungry=life loving
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
Bangambiki Habyarimana
All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The powerful hate truth that put them in bad light
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no love that is not self-love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't criticise the free choice of others, and I ask others do the same to me
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The instinct of self-preservation is above all the laws
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
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
Politics preys on people's naivety
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated
Bangambiki Habyarimana
People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth
Bangambiki Habyarimana
To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar
Bangambiki Habyarimana
They succeed not because they are perfect but because they do not let their imperfections stand in their way to success.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everybody would be a dictator if he could.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Reason is not always reasonable
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't fear mistakes, they are your stepping stone to success
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact
Bangambiki Habyarimana
My Existence is To Praise God and Help Others!
Marie Claudine MUKAMABANO
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Loneliness is a shadow of death
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ
Paul Gitwaza
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success sits on a mountain of mistakes
Bangambiki Habyarimana