The greatest human virtue is the ability to break one's unwillingness. One can become crazy and become a hero, one can become a hero by accurately calculating the enemy's defect, one can raise one's own stature by denying the enemy's stature. and that is what the law of victorious struggle demands, but the greatest virtue remains the high ability to crush one's own unwillingness.
And today, an impossible effort is required from each and every one of us to remove, expel that unwillingness from each of us. I say impossible because it seems like defeating one's will, almost self-destruction. That is the way to honor and grow, by honoring to grow, to raise and rise, to save and be saved, to go and to reach, because "what you enter, you find - what we enter, we find". today I enter "chivagh", tomorrow my own offspring will stand in my way, today I enter "friend and brother", tomorrow I will find myself in the army of my brothers and friends.
The most difficult thing is really to crush one's own worm in one's soul, and the easiest thing really is the ability to deny the undeniable of others, whose sin is only that they are not you, they are of us, but not us, they are of me, but I am not.
The diabolical path of denial, denial, and destruction starts from our souls, and our mouths, which could shine light, are the beginning of the enchanting path of plunder and destruction. At the sunset of our long day, that road brings us to one thing, and that thing is our own pedestal of the one who denies and destroys, but never repair the hearth that was to be called country and homeland and was to be all of us. The end of that road is our own end, and we want that road to be long, and we want it to be endless, because the end is our own end, because yesterday we were nobody, today we are somebody.
The path of hatred, denial and destruction starts from our souls, to this generation, to the tragic generation of our sons and brothers, to this deceiving, falling, oppressing, emerging and anew daring generation, we have only to bless and wish them a good journey - because perhaps for the first time in our thousand-year history, this generation was created from our flesh and blood and from our days and was destined to make our mistakes. to stumble in our place, to stand in our place in front of history and take our share of disgust from generations and generations, if we deserve to be disgusted.
History is a sphinx sitting on the road of nations and peoples, which does not ask the lesson of your past paths - it tries to get your will to pass from today, to step into the future.
Locally, yes, it is difficult. Never once, never before has the hard life knocked on our door like this. if we have identified a flag of sovereignty, then we also hold the white flag of independence ready in our arms. if we rebelled against the throne of our foreign master. if they were exiled, they were driven to humble submission and not to tyranny. Now they don't want our submissive submission - they demand our absence. Either be or don't. Or-or.
And this is required from a generation that was the least ready to stand up to such a demand in our thousand-year march of generations, - he thought that there is and will be in the army of victorious nations once and for all. And there are no victories once and for all - every generation must be decorated with its victory.
A struggle of being is required of a generation that has to sit alone face to face with the cloaked wolves of diplomacy. to stand alone before butchers skilled in the art of war; to relate to a business in the name of trade, where cheating is victory and being cheated is immoral. re-learn the ancient language of the land, and converse with the field and garden, as if the ox were not your idol and the apricot tree not your sister; to stop on the path of decline and escape not at the summons of the prosecutor - at one's own conscience. overcome the slavish freedom of violence, robbery, anarchy, adultery and restrain oneself with the shackles of morality.
We do not have the right not to make ourselves leaders of this deceiving, falling, falling, emerging and anew daring generation, the tragically heroic generation of our sons and brothers, we do not have the right not to strengthen the momentum of its great march with us, we do not have the moral right not to consider the one who leads us as our leader.
"Republic of Armenia", 19.09.1996