politics

[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

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Gore Vidal on terrorism:
“You can’t go on treating people like dirt
and not get kicked in the face…”
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I have wasted so much valuable time
trying to be popular when
I should have known all along
there is more merit in being unpopular.”
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xxxx does not happen
and those who say it does are liars.
xxxx is conceived, planned and executed
by highly qualified idiots
who have brainwashed themselves to believe
god is on their side.
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Fighting injustice is like being a solitary amateur
confronting a mob of seasoned pros –
a minnow in a pool of hungry barracudas.
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As an Armenian I should have known that
if your enemies don’t get you, your friends will.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

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We are few and we are weak.
That doesn’t explain why
we are also divided and stupid.
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It is not easy writing for an audience
99% of which are convinced
they don’t need a minor scribbler
telling them what to think.
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On the radio this morning:
“60% of native children were sexually assaulted
by their schoolteachers.”
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Life: by the time we understand the rules,
the game is up.
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Sunrise and sunset are greater miracles
than the resurrection of the dead.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

AS I SEE IT
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Democracy is great if you can afford
one or more politicians –
the more the merrier.
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Capitalism and communism create
more problems than they solve.
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Forgiving from a position of weakness
is bullxxxx.
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Civilized man is a heartless beast.
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Patriotism is not an ideology
but a pathology.
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In politics feet speak louder than the tongue.
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God does not speak and those who quote him
are dealers in abracadabra.
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Love is a cruel trap
designed by a heartless god.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

LOGIC
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Genesis makes more sense
than the Big Bang.
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All men of faith are brainwashed
by men of faith.
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With some men no means yes.
All women know this.
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The difference between them and us is that
they are bloodthirsty barbarians
and we believe in law and order.
Whose law and order?
Ours,of course.
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A man or woman disappointed in love
does not question the god of love.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

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To the average Armenian
a writer is first and foremost a dealer in bullxxxx.
The same cannot be said of sermonizers
(who speak in the name of the Almighty) and
speechifiers (who speaks in the name
of the eternal snows of Mt. Ararat).
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All Armenian controversies are rooted
in the following two fallacies:
(i) I am holier than thou, and
(ii) I am smarter than thou.
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The dumbest assertion dealing with Armenians:
“Armenians are smart.”
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When a dishonest reader demands solutions
to a specific problem, he means a verbal formula
like abracadabra that will make the problem disappear.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

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The 99% argue endlessly about
the existence of God.
The 1% know God is money.
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Our 1% have been successful
in systematically moronizing the nation.
That’s why they smile a lot
when they meet and shake hands.
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It is said of a tough motherf--- that
he has come out on the other side of the fire.
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“Only a fool makes a long speech
in a burning house.”
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Chateaubriand: “Love decreases
when it ceases to increase.”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

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Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923):
“Non-rational beliefs are more important
in spurring men to action than
logical demonstrations.”
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Francois Mauriac: “There is
a certain species of kindness
that is always a sign of betrayal.”
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All men of wealth and women with assets
tend to overestimate their worth.
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Long in speech, short in honesty.
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We should teach ourselves to say,
"the Serpent c’est moi."
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No one is interested to know
how smart you are
but how useful you can be to them.
Too smart is no good;
a little useful, much better!
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

HONEST RIFFRAFF.
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The 1% are guilty of deceiving the 99%
and the 99% are guiltier for refusing to use their brains.
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A great many incomprehensible things become
less incomprehensible if you remind yourself
(i) our religion is a Jewish heresy, and
(ii) our leaders, like most leaders, are not honorable men.
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Of the two or more explanations,
choose the one that is most painful to your self-esteem.
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Think of your identity not as a blessing but as a curse.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

AS I SEE IT
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As individuals we may be as smart
or as dumb as the rest of mankind;
but as a tribe we fully qualify as one
of the dumbest.
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All family trees go back to Cain,
a contemporary of the Serpent.
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It never fails:
as soon as I run out of things to say,
God sends me a critic
who stimulates me to keep buggering on.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: politics

OUR BETTERS?
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As a boy, my greatest ambition
was to make a good impression on my betters.
It never even occurred to me to suspect
our betters may well be our worst.
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ON AN UNFORGETTABLE LINE
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Some lines once read are never forgotten.
I dare you to forget this line by G.B. Shaw:
“I am a gentleman.
I steal from the poor and give to the rich.”
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ON SOCRATES:
THE UNFORGETABLE LINE
HE NEVER SPOKE
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On being condemned to death,
Socrates had ever reason to say
(and he probably did because his thinking
following a predictable assertion/contradiction line):
“You are not killing me.
You are committing suicide.”
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ON SAROYAN
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More than Saroyan’s works,
it is his celebrity that most Armenians admire.
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