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Quotes by Rwandan Authors

"There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can't afford medical care."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can't afford medical care."
"Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions."
"Market economy favors the have against the have not."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Market economy favors the have against the have not."
"Don't lose your time gazing at the spilled milk. There are other cows to milk."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Don't lose your time gazing at the spilled milk. There are other cows to milk."
"We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us."
"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . "is a pious lie."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . "is a pious lie."
"Fate smiles to the bold."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Fate smiles to the bold."
"I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away."
"Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life."
"The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview."
"You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness."
"Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry."
"Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side."
"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
"Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself."
"People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever."
"I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"Successful business is always almost dishonest."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Successful business is always almost dishonest."
"Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it."
"Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change."
"Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws."
"A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically."
"I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours."
"Demons do exist, you believe them into existence."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Demons do exist, you believe them into existence."
"Despair is the source of all evil."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Despair is the source of all evil."
"How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?"
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?"
"Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional."
"I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason."
"Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him."
"It's a sin only if it harms you."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"It's a sin only if it harms you."
"You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?"
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?"
"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."
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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."
"You are what you believe."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You are what you believe."
"Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification."
"If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted."
"It's not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"It's not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has."
"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."
"The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show."
"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
"Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it."
"Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running."
"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."
"Love is better than any weapon, all you have to do is keep it burning in the heart of the victim. He will do whatever you ask him to do."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Love is better than any weapon, all you have to do is keep it burning in the heart of the victim. He will do whatever you ask him to do."
"Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you."
"A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it."
"Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything."
"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."
"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."
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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."
"A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use."
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