leaders
ON LEADERSHIP
********************************
Our political leaders survive by assuming
fools and cowards like us don’t deserve any better.
Their self-esteem must be as sold and unshakable
as Mt. Ararat.
*
We will never understand the deep unconscious ties
that exist between the German people and Hitler.
Remember, even Thomas Mann identified him as “a brother.”
*
Jean Guehenno on the German occupation of France:
“How will we climb out of this shame and degradation?”
I can’t think of a single Armenian writer
capable of producing such a sentence.
*
Zarian on his contemporaries like Oshagan:
“When they speak of Homeland,
they mean Istanbul.”
*
Khachatur Abovian on Russians:
“Blessed be the hour they set their blessed foot
on our sacred soil.”
*
Ruben Zarian (no kin of Gostan) on Abovian:
“He assigned a messianic role to the Russians.”
*
In the eyes of the world Putin may be
no better than swine, but I have every reason to suspect
in the eyes of our oligarchs, including the Catholics,
Putin is what the Pope is to Catholics:
not just a statesman of vision
but a savior and the keeper of their power and money,
#
ON LEADERSHIP
********************************
Our political leaders survive by assuming
fools and cowards like us don’t deserve any better.
Their self-esteem must be as sold and unshakable
as Mt. Ararat.
*
We will never understand the deep unconscious ties
that exist between the German people and Hitler.
Remember, even Thomas Mann identified him as “a brother.”
*
Jean Guehenno on the German occupation of France:
“How will we climb out of this shame and degradation?”
I can’t think of a single Armenian writer
capable of producing such a sentence.
*
Zarian on his contemporaries like Oshagan:
“When they speak of Homeland,
they mean Istanbul.”
*
Khachatur Abovian on Russians:
“Blessed be the hour they set their blessed foot
on our sacred soil.”
*
Ruben Zarian (no kin of Gostan) on Abovian:
“He assigned a messianic role to the Russians.”
*
In the eyes of the world Putin may be
no better than swine, but I have every reason to suspect
in the eyes of our oligarchs, including the Catholics,
Putin is what the Pope is to Catholics:
not just a statesman of vision
but a savior and the keeper of their power and money,
#
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