Top 67 Ataturk's Quotes
#1. He also gives a good picture of the profound chaos unleashed in Muslim countries in 1924 by Ataturk's sudden abolition of the caliphate, an institution they had superficially not taken much notice of but which was central to a Muslim's whole identity.
Tom Reiss
#2. Impact of this makeover has been to significantly impede historical research, and it is one of Ataturk's most devastating accomplishments.
Eric Bogosian
#3. The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation,
Eric Bogosian
#4. Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.
Stephen Kinzer
#5. My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
Ahmet Ertegun
#8. My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
Ahmet Ertegun
#9. To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#10. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#12. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#13. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#14. My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
Ahmet Ertegun
#17. Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.
Stephen Kinzer
#18. Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#19. The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#23. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#24. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#26. A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#27. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#28. The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize ... That's not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.
Rush Limbaugh
#29. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#31. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#32. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#33. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#34. Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#35. There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
Stephen Kinzer
#37. Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#38. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#40. Persons, who knows that, that they will not be able to rest along the way when they took a path, will never get tired.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#42. Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#43. A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#44. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#46. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#47. 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 Ataturk
#48. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#49. Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#50. Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
Bulent Ecevit
#51. Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#52. Vision, of the Ittihadists and, by extension, Kemal Ataturk, did not include the non-Muslim population of what was once the Ottoman Empire.
Eric Bogosian
#54. This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#56. These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#59. Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#61. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#62. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#63. In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#64. 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.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#66. [Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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