Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 3

Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises.

There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare

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

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

Everybody would be a dictator if he could.

You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison

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.

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

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

Some people start to live when they die

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

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.

A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions

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

They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people

Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind

All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.

It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

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

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

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.

What is life but an ongoing war?

Honesty is a very choosy virtue

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

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

You never know what you will write until you write it

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens