Armenians Quotes

• It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

  Kim Kardashian

  Genocide, Armenian Genocide, Recognise

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Suicide, Humor

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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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• 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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• The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians

  Talaat Pasha

  Country, Salvation, Elimination

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Armenia, Crime

  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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• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Leadership, Years, Turkeys

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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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• 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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• The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.

  James Bryce

  Practice, Government, Empires

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