Top 13 Paul Rusesabagina Quotes

#1. Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

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#2. Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

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#3. Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

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#4. This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

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#5. "There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

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#6. I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

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#7. Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

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#8. History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

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#9. Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

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#10. We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

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#11. If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play
if we want to change the world
we must first show up on the field to score.

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#12. 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.

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#13. It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.

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