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

Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way t…

- Paul Rusesabagina

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to yo…

- 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

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

- Paul Rusesabagina

"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."

- Paul Rusesabagina