barbarians

[arabaliozian]

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Like all fundamentalists, an Armenian wants to change the world but not himself. He refuses to do the possible and attempts the impossible – that is to say, to teach justice, human rights, and morality to present and former empires like the United States and Turkey that operate on the assumption they know better than a failed state like Iran, Yemen and Somalia -- states with little history of central government control; states so corrupt and inept that they shoot to kill innocent demonstrators with a legitimate grievance, or they violate the human rights of their own citizens.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

After reading my morning paper.
I find it very difficult to love my fellow men.

[arabaliozian]

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If only I could count the number of times
I should have said nothing
instead of saying the wrong thing.
#armenians

[arabaliozian]

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We have survived – no one denies that –
but survived as what?

[arabaliozian]

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You can tell a man is not favorably disposed
towards you when he accuses you of crimes
you could not even imagine capable of committing.

[arabaliozian]

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Nature seems to be partial to the number two: we have two eyes, two ears, two arms, two legs, and a forked tongue.

[arabaliozian]

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Only the abysmally ignorant view criticism as an expression of hostility rather than concern.

[arabaliozian]

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We are not who we think we are.Our enemies are not who we think they are.Neither are we who they think we are.And what we think is not what we really think but what we were brought up to think.What is history if not a tragedy of errors?

[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

The barbarian does not feel the need to ask questions because he already has all the answers.

[arabaliozian]

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Past blunders interest me only in so far as our present problems are rooted in them.