To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKEverything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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Science is the most reliable guide in life.
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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
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Nations which don’t find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
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Freedom and independence form my character.
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It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
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Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who … as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
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Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
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The future is in the skies.
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Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.
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In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
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Peace at home, peace in the world.
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A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.
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No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
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Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
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If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
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No country is free unless it is democratic.
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A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.
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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
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Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
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We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.
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A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation’s future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.
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This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
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