Kemal Ataturk's Quotes

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

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

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Islam is a dead thing.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

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

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.