The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

- Serj Tankian

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 c…

- Serj Tankian

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fis…

- Serj Tankian

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

- Serj Tankian

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

- Serj Tankian

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

- Serj Tankian

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

- Serj Tankian

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

- Serj Tankian

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just loo…

- Serj Tankian