Armenians Quotes

• It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

  Kim Kardashian

  Genocide, Armenian Genocide, Recognise

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• The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

  Arshile Gorky

  Moving, Eye, Long

  University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, Arshile Gorky (1975). “Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings”

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• It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

  William Saroyan

  Giving, Study, Preserves

  "First Visit to Armenia". Book by William Saroyan, 1935.

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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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• Armenian is the language to speak with God.

  Lord Byron

  Language, Speak

  "A people killed twice" by Julia Pascal, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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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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• Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Bleeding, Armenian Genocide

  "Turkey must end its 100 years of genocide denial" by Peter Balakian, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2015.

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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, Armenia, Denial

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• It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Destiny, Interesting

  From the Letters of Lord Byron, January 2, 1817.

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• We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Evil, Judgement, Needs

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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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• The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

  Chris Hedges

  Lonely, Memories, Home

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• It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Blow, Journey, Political

  President Serzh Sargsyan's Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 2010.

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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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• When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

  Serj Tankian

  Soul, Listening, Bees

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Mean, America

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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'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, Armenia, Earth

  William Saroyan (2005). “Essential Saroyan”

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• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  William Saroyan

  Book, Eight, Half

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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, Armenia

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

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• I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Husband, Bottles, Paper

  "Khloe Kardashian On How She Plans To Spend Valentine’s Day With Lamar Odom". Interview with Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Brother, Men

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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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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• The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

  Pope Francis

  People, Firsts, Genocide

  "Pope Francis Speaks Of 'Genocide' In Armenia Visit". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Today, Remember

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