Mustafa Kemal Atatürk quotes - page 2

Those who see the existence of all mankind in their own person are miserable. Obviously, that man will disappear as an individual. The need for any person to be satisfied and happy to live is to work not for himself but for the future. An insightful man can only act this way. Full enjoyment and happiness in life, but the honor, presence, happiness of future generations can be found. (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
Why after my years of education, after studying the secular civilization and the socialization process, should I decent to the level of common people, I will make them rise to my level, let me not resemble them, they should resemble me! View quote
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Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. View quote
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There is no defense line, but defense territory. This territory is the whole of the motherland! View quote
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For nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories of an Arab Shaikh and the interpretations of generations of lazy and good-for-nothing priests have decided the civil and criminal law of Turkey. They have decided the form of the Constitution, the details of the lives of each Turk, his food, his hours of rising and sleeping the shape of his clothes, the routine of the midwife who produced his children, what he learned in his schools, his customs, his thoughts-even his most intimate habits. Islam – this theology of an immoral Arab – is a dead thing. Possibly it might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for modern, progressive state. God's revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weakling. No weaklings should rule. View quote
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Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy. View quote
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If you don't have ammunition, you have bayonets! FIX BAYONETS! GET DOWN! View quote
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Your voice is my voice. Do not forget it! View quote
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There are two Mustafa Kemals: One is me, the flesh-and-blood, mortal Mustafa Kemal ... The second Mustafa Kemal,... I can not express it with the word "me”, it is not "me”, it is "we”. That is an intellectual and challenging society, struggling in every corner of the homeland for new ideas, new life and the great ideal. I represent their dream. My attempts are to satisfy the things they long. That Mustafa Kemal is you, all of you. That is the non provisional Mustafa Kemal that must live and succeed. View quote
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. View quote
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Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world. (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
Freedom and independence form my character. View quote
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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. View quote
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Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? View quote
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Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. View quote
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. View quote
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Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. View quote
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. View quote
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Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. View quote
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We must delve into our roots and reconstruct what history has divided. We can't wait for them to approach us. We must reach out to them. View quote
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men. (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour. View quote
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion. View quote
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Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. View quote
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Turkey's true master is the peasant. View quote
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