Jule, 29, 2005
Aphorisms of the Russo-Chechen war - 4
(By materials of mass-media and book production)
APHORISM (French - aphorisme, from Greek - aphorismos) – a brief expressive saying (The Explanatory dictionary of foreign words of L.P.Krysin).
APHORISM - a brief expressive saying containing generalizing conclusion (The Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language of S.I.Ozhegov and N.J.Shvedova).
APHORISM - a saying, expressing in the laconic form a generalized thought (The Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Mefodiy).
“If you are afraid - do not say, if YOU HAVE SAID - do not be afraid” (an Arabian quotation).
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• “A war can be stopped only with a war!” (Abdul-Halim Sadulaev).
• “The whole short history of the Russian ethnos is suffering, grief, death for themselves and the peoples surrounding them” (Adallo).
• “If Russia had been an Islamic country, Chechenia would feel more than normally in its structure” (Zelimhan Yandarbiev).
• “In Russia half of thieves are cops, half of cops are thieves” (Amanchi Gunashev).
• “In the language of Nahs there is no word "mister". This society had temples, but there were no prisons” (Ahmad Hacharoisky).
• “If to illumine Russia , what will remain? Snow, vodka and blood…” (Vladimir Sorokin).
• “The bad luck is waiting for you, Russia , like irony!” (Bilal Alkanov)
• “And ancient towers burn with aggressive revenge” (Bilal Alkanov).
• “The Islam outside of politics is already "half-Islam" (Zelimhan Yandarbiev)
• “The Islam is not a religion of war and violence, but the religion of peace and compassion” (Abu-Shamil Saidi)
• “The historical memory of the peoples of the Caucasus and aspiration to freedom turned out to be stronger, than centuries of the colonial slavery” (Movladi Udugov).
• “The history of Russia will remain in the papers - from Ivan Groznyy up to city Groznyy” (Ahmad Hacharoisky)
• “A lie uses lie, the truth does not need it” (Shamil Basaev)
• “When I listen to our commentators from the place of events from the Chechen Republic , I wish to place them on a lie detector connected with an electric chair”. (Michael Zadornov)
• “Only the one, who has followed the way of Jihad, will enter the azure of the Divine Garden ” (Bilal Alkanov)
• “Any idea, even the most respectable one, is a fiction, until it begins to work …” (Magomed Tagaev)
• “Peace at any cost is philosophy of a slave” (Zelimhan Yandarbiev).
• “In this war we protect not only the honor of Chechens, but also the honor of all other peoples of the Caucasus !” (Aslan Mashadov)
• “ Moscow should study attentively its own history and to look at itself in a mirror” (Amanchi Gunashev)
• “Probably, Russia is named "great", because it is great externally, but empty inside” (Ahmad Hacharoisky).
• “The so-called “world community of states” is guided not by the principle of equality but by the right of a strong” (Zelimhan Yandarbiev)
• “Neither Yeltsin, nor Putin had Toulon or Egypt . They went up to the Olympus of authority through the Chechen Republic ” (Amanchi Gunashev)
• “The policy of appeasement has brought nothing to its creators, except for a shame” (Ahmed Zakaev).
• “Soon a piloted blockhouse in a space orbit will be necessary against Chechens” (Yaras Valyukenas).
• “Putin and Russia are soul-mates” (Magomed Tagaev).
• “In the Chechen Republic Russia at the best has won a fight, but has lost the battle” (Amanchi Gunashev)
• “ Russia will never leave the Caucasus , until the Caucasus comes to Russia ” (Ahmad Hacharoisky)
• “ Russia is not a state and not a nation. It is simply a big territory, on which the so-called passport nation "Russians" temporarily gloats”. (Magomed Tagaev).
• “Not Djohar Dudaev does not suit Russia ; the Chechen people do not suit Russia ”. (Djohar Dudaev)
• “A Russian person becomes frank only with a glass or a wine-glass” (Michael Gorbachev).
• “Slaves do not have Fatherland” (Amanchi Gunashev).
• “A Russian does not have a concept about obligations by a contract and other reserves. He thinks with his stomach and an intoxicated head” (Zelimhan Yandarbiev).
• “The hour of punishment inevitably approaches, just the same, as a day destroying the night” (Ahyad Idigov).
• “The more there are such idiots as Yeltsin, the more bases for struggle there are” (Magomed Tagaev).
• “Chechens more likely will change the world, than they will change their aspiration to freedom” (Hozh-Ahmed Nuhaev).
• “It is necessary to be courageous to say the truth and it is necessary to be sane to distinguish it from a lie” (Ahmad Ichkeriiskiy).
• “I am ready to burn down in fire for my people!” (Djohar Dudaev).
(To be continued...)
Composers - Saihan and Shamhan Bauddinovs, for CHECHENPRESS, 29.07.05
http://chechenpress.co.uk/english/news/2005/07/29/01.shtml