Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 3

If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor
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Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.
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It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.
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I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
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If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle
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The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs.
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It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god’s world.
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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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Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.
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Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
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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.
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What is life but an ongoing war?
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When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated
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The end of love looks like the beginning of war
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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.
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When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you.
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An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.
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Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach
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Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying.
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Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
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From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )
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Religion is pure hypnosis
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It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance
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All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.
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When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance
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Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story
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It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories
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There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity
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On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots
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I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.
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Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's
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Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
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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
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Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie
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Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul
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Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
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This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have
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Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein
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People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth
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