Armenia Quotes

• The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just with Armenia with its three million population, but with the ten million Armenians. And let no one ignore the fact that, contrary to any slogans, the Armenian nation is united in its goals and is strong with its sons and daughters.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Daughter, Strong, Son

  Address of the President of Armenia to the people of the Republic of Armenia and to all Armenians, www.president.am. October 10, 2009.

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• Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Minorities, Armenians, Nations

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

  William Saroyan

  America, Earth, Forget

  William Saroyan (2005). “Essential Saroyan”

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• Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

  Anatole France

  Blood, Giving, Dying

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• If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

  Mark Foley

  Common Vision, Turkeys, Leader

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• The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

  Herbert Hoover

  Christian, School, Sunday

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

  John Shimkus

  Historical, Borders, Territory

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• But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Views, Europe, Tools

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• I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

  William Saroyan

  Prayer, War, Home

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Hate, White, Looks

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• A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Birthday, Age, Finals

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.

  Talaat Pasha

  Christian, War, Order

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• It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

  Jimmy Carter

  Years, People, Effort

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...my entire body is hairless.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Hair

  "https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-body/news/khloe-kardashian-i-feel-massive-next-to-kim-kourtney-2011274/". Allure Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2010.

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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

  William Saroyan

  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.

  William Saroyan

  Land, America, Earth

  William Saroyan (1992). “Saroyan's Armenians: An Anthology”, Aegina Press

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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• When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.

  Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

  Past, Race, Order

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• He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Suicide, Humor

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• You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

  Atom Egoyan

  Holocaust, Denial, Forgotten

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• 800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

  Djemal Pasha

  Past, Government, Cleansing

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• These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Christian, Party, Home

  Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.

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• ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Turkeys

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Crime, Genocide

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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