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.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKMen, 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.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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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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The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
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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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To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.
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Science is the most reliable guide in life.
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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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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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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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Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
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Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.
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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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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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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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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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