To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKA good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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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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A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
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No country is free unless it is democratic.
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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
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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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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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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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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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Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
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Freedom and independence is my character.
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He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
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Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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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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