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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us!"
"A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man, a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!"
"Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!"
"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!"
"A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth's position in the universe!"
"Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!"
"For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!"
"Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming, it won't be helpful for the solution!"
"In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!"
"You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!"
"He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!"
"Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!"
"What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!"
"If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!"
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The good may lose, the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!"
"If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason's coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life!"
"A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!"
"Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!"
"A house without security cannot be a home!"
"To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don't do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!"
"If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!"
"Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!"
"When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!"
"People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!"
"How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!"
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
"You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!"
"It is good to say something beautiful; it is even better to say something right; but saying a right thing beautifully, that is the best!"
"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!"
"Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!"
"Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!"
"Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!"
"When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!"
"A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!"
"People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!"
"You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!"
"In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!"
"Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!"
"The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!"
"There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations."
"Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!"
"If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!"
"If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren't only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!"
"For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!"
"When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!"
"People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!"
"The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!"
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