Armenian Quotations

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Armenian Quotations

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Anonymous: "The less you speak the more you hear."

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Arshak Chobanian: "Leaders with a warm heart and a cool head:

that’s what we need; that’s what all nations need."

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Raffi: "If you want to save your fellow men

you must be prepared to be crucified by them."

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Hovannes Toumanian: "You must burn in order to enlighten."

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Daniel Varoujan: "The fuller the pocket the emptier the heart."

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Djivani: "Solidarity can move mountains."

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Raffi: "There is a school of thought that asserts

our identity has a better chance to survive in a land of backward

barbarians.

There is some truth in that.

Savages exterminate by massacre.

Civilized people employ more civilized means to achieve the same end."

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Anonymous: "You can always count on a rich man’s head

to be as empty as an honest man’s pocket."

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Khachik Ishkhanian: "Why climb to the top

if what awaits you is the abyss?"

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Anonymous: "A thousand friends are too few,

one enemy is too many."

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Raffi: "Even those among us who have taken it upon themselves

to educate the people are nothing but uneducated ignoramuses."

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Krikor Zohrab: "Oppression corrupts everything it touches,

including the highest moral virtues."

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Yeznig Palig: "A hungry vegetarian can be as dangerous as any carnivore."

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Derenik Demirjian: "Every Armenian has another Armenian

whom he considers his mortal enemy."

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Anonymous: "The drowning man has no fear of rain."

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Ruben Ter-Minassian: "Our cultural achievements and intellectual

abilities may be superior to those of our neighbors, but without

solidarity we are bound to be defeated, victimized, and exterminated."

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Anonymous: "Sugar may be sweet but bread is better."

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Yeghishe: "Solidarity is the mother of good deeds,

divisiveness of evil ones."

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Neshan Beshigtashlian: "Suicide: the brave deed of a coward."

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Puzant Granian: "We have many national benefactors

but not a single national writer."

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Anonymous: "In his own home a mouse is a lion."

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Anonymous: "Patience is a tough tree that bears sweet fruit."

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Avedik Issahakian: "The rich reap the fruit, the poor pluck the thorn."

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Hagop Baronian: "Shamelessness: A crossroads that will take you

anywhere."

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Anonymous: "A clear conscience is a soft pillow."

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Yeghia Demirjibashian: "Ethics: Thou shalt not have two homes and two

faces."

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Vahram Papazian: "The greater your worth

the greater the pleasure of the worthless to tear you down."

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Anonymous: "Little men take pleasure in inflating little things to big

things."

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Yeznik Palik: "Church: a shop that sells soap for sins."

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Vahram Papazian: "To be indifferent to crime is to conspire with

criminals."

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Anonymous: "The avaricious person is tormented by greed for more

and fear of less."

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Anonymous: "Trust a new friend as much as you would trust an old enemy."

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Anonymous: "Only God gives without expecting anything in return."

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Anonymous: "If you say what you want to say,

you will hear what you don't want to hear."