Immaculee Ilibagiza Quotes

Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

Love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that - God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about - the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is "I love you". What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

The lovely loving and the hateful hates.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

Love is the most powerful weapon in the world for good. I really believe that.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.