As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is killed.

— Thomas Sowell

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.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

— DaShanne Stokes

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

— Anna Funder

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact, it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions

— Bangambiki Habyarimana