Sunday, July 24, 2011
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ON POWER
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Power means first and foremost
the power to justify that which cannot be justified –
from dividing the community
to committing genocide.
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Power allows the insane to accuse the sane of insanity.
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My answer to those who question my habit
of posting critical comments on open forums:
If I am wrong, they can correct me.
If they are wrong, they should correct themselves.
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Power means to view disagreement as a capital offense.
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The first and most important measure
of all powerful men
is to convince their adversaries that
the best defense is subservience.
But I believe Dostoevsky when he said
even the weakest man
has unimaginable reserves of power within him.
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There are no new ideas.
All we can do is to mention the forgotten,
to emphasize the marginalized,
and to expose the absurd.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
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THE LESSONS OF OSLO
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Life is unpredictable and trying to predict it
is a waste of time.
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Never underestimate the barbarism of the civilized.
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Sometimes our worst enemy is one of us.
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There is a Turk in all of us –
and Norwegians are no exception.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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COMMENTS
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How to win an argument Turkish style:
Make yourself so absurd and repellent that
your adversary will give up in disgust.
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I look forward to the day
when I will be objective enough to view Armenia
as a foreign country and my fellow Armenians
not as my brothers but as foreigners.
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“He doesn’t believe what he says”
is better than “he believes what he says.”
I’d much rather deal with a liar
than with someone willing to kill and die
in the name of a belief system –
that is to say, a Big Lie.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
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When asked why he hates Germans,
a Jew is reported to have replied:
“I have seven million reasons.”
We may not have as many reasons,
but we have another: we are called liars
because we dare to speak the truth.
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Talaat appears to be the role model of all war criminals.
First they run away to a foreign country
(as I write there are thirty of them in Canada alone)
and when they are identified, arrested, and brought to justice,
they plead not guilty.
They see themselves as patriots, not killers.
Like wolves, they view the slaughter of sheep
as an inevitable result of evolution.
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