“Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.”

Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.

The future is in the skies.

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.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

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.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Science is the only true guide in life.

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.

Peace at home, peace in the world.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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.

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.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Freedom and independence form my character.

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.