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…

- Paul Rusesabagina

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

- Paul Rusesabagina

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

- Paul Rusesabagina

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 …

- Paul Rusesabagina

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.

- Paul Rusesabagina

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

- Paul Rusesabagina

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…

- Paul Rusesabagina

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

- Paul Rusesabagina

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

- Paul Rusesabagina