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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Live the future when it comes, not now, only when it comes! Now, only live the now!"
"Spring is not a season, it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!"
"Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!"
"Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker!"
"The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!"
"Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!"
"The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!"
"Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!"
"It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves."
"Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!"
"No child's face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!"
"Create a world within the world and be happy inside it! Don't forget, you are not condemned to live the world as is!"
"If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!"
"Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!"
"Doing goodness creates shining, he who does goodness shines in the eyes and in the hearts of others!"
"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"
"Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!"
"The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!"
"Library: The Temple of the Wise!"
"If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!"
"Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!"
"Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!"
"A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!"
"Even the giant lead balls are not as heavy as the two sad eyes!"
"When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!"
"In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet!"
"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"
"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
"Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!"
"Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!"
"The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion."
"For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!"
"A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!"
"Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!"
"The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!"
"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
"Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!"
"When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!"
"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"
"A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!"
"Wise man is a good Sherpa, he takes you to the highest places!"
"We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!"
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Today's living people are much more important than tomorrow's yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today's people!"
"When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!"
"Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign, some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation!"
"As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!"
"Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!"
"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!"
"The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is AtatA1?4rk, an immortal revolutionist!"
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