My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKPeace at home, peace in the world.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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Our true mentor in life is science.
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Victory is for those who can say “Victory is mine”. Success is for those who can begin saying “I will succeed” and say “I have succeeded” in the end.
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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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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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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
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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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A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.
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Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.
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After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
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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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You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
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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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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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The future is in the skies.
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No country is free unless it is democratic.
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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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The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
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Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
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Nations which don’t find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
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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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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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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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Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is 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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Science is the only true guide in life.
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