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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Environmental pollution is not only humanity's treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!"
"Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US."
"There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization."
"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!"
"If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!"
"The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey."
"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"
"Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!"
"No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!"
"Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!"
"He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!"
"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
"In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don't ever stop, don't ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don't behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!"
"If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!"
"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"
"The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!"
"Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!"
"Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!"
"A calm night is open to all the truths."
"Don't be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!"
"By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!"
"After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq."
"Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!"
"When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!"
"Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!"
"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
"When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!"
"For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!"
"The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!"
"What is a great success? You haven't hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven't ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven't lied? That is a great success! You haven't deceived a person? That's a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!"
"Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!"
"Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!"
"Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!"
"Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!"
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."
"If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!"
"The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!"
"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
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