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As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
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We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.
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To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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