Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 3

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Atheism is not against god, it is against the religious establishment who use god they have never seen or heard from to establish their influence over the minds of men.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people are bringing the business tricks of scarcity mentality into God's mind. They will tell you that only a few will see God. Why? God's heart is infinitely huge, his arms infinitely large that all of us can have a place in him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom
Bangambiki Habyarimana
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare
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
Never mind the End is the Beginning of the new season. Be ready to enter your new season
Paul Gitwaza
In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everybody would be a dictator if he could.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison
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
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
The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people start to live when they die
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Nothing closes doors as quickly as constant bad humor, reclamation, whining. Nobody wants to associate themselves with losers.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and villages throughout the country. It meant feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, caring for the young, but it also meant healing the wounded and forgiving the unforgivable.I knew I had to be committed to preaching a transforming message to the people of Rwanda. Jesus did not die for people to be religious. He died so that we might believe in Him and be transformed. I'm engaged in a purpose and strategy that Jesus came to Earth for. My life is set for that divine purpose in Jesus Christ. I was called to that--proclaiming the message of transformation through Jesus Christ.
John Rucyahana
A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions
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
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind
Bangambiki Habyarimana
All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read.Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create.
John Rucyahana
It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
paul kagame
Humility Preceeds Glory
Paul Gitwaza
Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.
Jean Nshimiyimana
What is life but an ongoing war?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Honesty is a very choosy virtue
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life.
Paul Rusesabagina
You never know what you will write until you write it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
Bangambiki Habyarimana