Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.