Quotes by Rwandan Authors

Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.
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
Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan
Bangambiki Habyarimana
All you need to be recognized as an authority is to be recognized by a recognized authority
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Our thoughts shape how we behave.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Be happy when people envy you, you are on the right path
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A healthy nation is measured by its level of reconciliation. ‎Reconciliation‬ between people with God and people among themselves!
Paul Gitwaza
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Arrogance is the last thing to die
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
They can only kill us once.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer
Bangambiki Habyarimana
They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politics preys on people's naivety
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians look for interests not people
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics
Bangambiki Habyarimana
In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people.
Paul Rusesabagina
Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Planning is worrying based on facts
Bangambiki Habyarimana
To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Truth was not meant to be told but found
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An angry enemy is a conquered enemy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When I look at the multitude of the gods of the past held in esteem by great civilisations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder wether tomorrow the gods we hold in high esteem won't suffer the same fate.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Eternity is today
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison
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
Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority
Bangambiki Habyarimana