Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKHe is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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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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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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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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Freedom and independence is my character.
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Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
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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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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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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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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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Our true mentor in life is science.
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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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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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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 good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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