Top 66 Kemal Quotes
#1. Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.
William L. Shirer
#2. Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.
Louis De Bernieres
#3. 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
#4. Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness.
Eric Bogosian
#5. The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation,
Eric Bogosian
#6. 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
#7. I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on ... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal
Orhan Pamuk
#10. To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. We've come to the point where we're no longer able to protect our national values. Where will it all end?
Kemal Kerincsiz
#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
#24. 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
#25. If we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.
Kemal Dervis
#26. 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
#28. A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#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
#39. Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. 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
#43. Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#44. A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#45. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#51. Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#53. This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#55. 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
#58. Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#59. Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey.
Kemal Dervis
#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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