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i saw the tears of the oppressed - and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors - and they have no comforter. And i declared that the dead, who are already dead, are happier than the living, who are still alive. but better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 4:1-4

One morning I woke up
And I found the invader
...Oh Fedayi, carry me away,
For I feel I'm dying
And if I die as a Fedayeen
You have to bury me
But bury me up in the mountain
Under the shadow of a beautiful flower
And the people who will pass by
Will say to me: "what a beautiful flower"
This is the flower of the Fedayi
Who died for freedom
(Armenian version of Bella Caio)

"Աչքը ինչ տեսնար, սիրտը չի մոռնար"
"Whatever the eye sees, the heart won't forget."
~Armenian Proverb~

"only a fool fears death, but the wise and brave learn to embrace it, for death is only another part of life"
-Armenian Philosopher/monk (Battle of Avarayr)

LACRIMOSA DIES ILLA, QUA RESUR GET EX FAVILLA, JUDICANDUS HOMO REUS, HUIC ER GO PARCE DEUS, PIE JESU DOMINE, DONA EIS REQUIEM, AMEN.

I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race; this small tribe of unimportant people whose history is ended, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, whose prayers are no longer uttered. Go ahead, destroy this race. Let us say that it is again 1915 there is war in the world. Destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their houses and their churches. See if they will not live again. See if they will not laugh again. See if you can stop them from mocking the big ideas of the world. Go ahead, try to destroy them. For if any of them meet from a different part of the world, see if they will not create a new Armenia!
*The Armenian and the Armenian*
-William Saroyan

"I advise the Azeri Government not to restart the hostilities in Karabakh, because this time, the Armenian Army will make sure that Azerbaijan as a country ceases to exist"
-Vartan Oskanian (Armenian FM)

"its not the fall that kills you... But the sudden stop"
-Chronicles of Riddik

your language TURKISH, your alphabet ARABIC, CYRILLIC, LATIN, your culture PERSIAN, your religion ARABIC your roots CENTRAL ASIA. now think about the word "stealing" stupid Turks!
-Gio-Ezio

(A mother has lost her only son, she looks for him in the woods she meets a man with a rifle) "Oh hunter, alone in the hills, have you seen my son; my boy; my little deer?" the hunter replies "Yes I saw him early heading for a wedding feast, on his heart a red poppy I saw." " Tell me hunter, who is she who took my son away? Where does he lie wed with her?" she asks "Your son lies on a stone; to a bullet he has wed, not with a dove he lies." The hunter replies
-Armenian folk song

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"Revenge is like a ghost, it takes over every man it touches, its thirst cannot be quenched, until the last man standing has fallen"
- Zakayev

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success."
- William Saroyan

"I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?"
- William Saroyan

"In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it."
- William Saroyan

Among the good deeds which the Armenian people has done towards the church and the Christian world, it should especially be stressed that, in those times when the Christian princes and the warriors went to retake the Holy Land, no people or nation, with the same enthusiasm, joy and faith came to their aid as the Armenians did, who supplied the crusaders with horses, provision and guidance. The Armenians assisted these warriors with their utter courage and loyalty during the Holy wars.
- Ecclesia Romana, 1584

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
- Andrea Martin

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

"Manners, -- The final and perfect flower of noble character."
- Armenian Governor & Lawyer, b.1923

Famous Turkish author stated (and was put on trial for making this statement) in February, 2005... one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it.
- Orhan Pamuk

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