Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes - Page 2

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• [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

  Years, Veils, Lasts

  "Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography" by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, (p. 38), 2011.

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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.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 2002.

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• The future is in the skies.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Sky

  "Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic" by Sibel Bozdoğan, (p. 126), 2001.

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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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  Real, Player, Enlightenment

  "Atatürk'ten Düşünceler" by E. Z. Karal, (p. 59), 1969.

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• Our true mentor in life is science.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Mentor, Life Is

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• Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

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  Revolution, Compromise

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• There are two Mustafa Kemals. One the flesh-and-blood Mustafa Kemal who now stands before you and who will pass away. The other is you, all of you here who will go to the far corners of our land to spread the ideals which must be defended with your lives if necessary. I stand for the nation's dreams, and my life's work is to make them come true.

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  Dream, Blood, Land

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Moon, Wings, Progress

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

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  Teaching, People, Democracy

  "Turkey Today" by Grace Ellison, London: Hutchinson, 1928.

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• Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

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  Identity, National Identity, Nations

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Humanity, Independence

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• Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Country, Demand, Territory

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• In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Education, Knowledge, Order

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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.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Time, Men, Force

  "Studies in Battle Command" by Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, (p. 89), 1995.

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• 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.

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  Christian, Party, Home

  Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.

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• Peace at home, peace in the world.

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  Peace, Home, World

  "Atatürk" by Uluğ İğdemir, (p. 200), 1963.

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• 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.

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  Patriotism, Matter, Violence

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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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  Writing, Humanity, Historical

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

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  Country, Rest In Peace, Lying

  "Embracing the Enemy", www.abc.net.au. April 24, 2005.

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• Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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  Guides

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• Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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  Authority, Reservations, Nations

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• Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

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  Religion, Important, Institutions

  "Kemalizm, Laiklik ve Demokrasi". Book by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 1994.

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• 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.

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  Change, Country, Reality

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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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  Struggle, Men, Goal

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• Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

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  Justice, Infrastructure, Owners

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