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 fish and own everything, and then youll have zero capitalism, zero competition – it would just be one giant company. – Serj Tankian
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. – Serj Tankian
People think our musics very aggressive or angry or whatever, and its just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. – Serj Tankian
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. – Serj Tankian
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov