Mustafa Kemal Ataturk famous quotes

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Creativity #Creative #World

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Teacher #Teaching #Light

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Mean #Faces #Doe

Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Islam #Rotting #Poison

The future is in the skies.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Sky

Islam is a dead thing.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Islam

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. 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

#Government #Sea #People

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Independence

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Justice #Owners #Infrastructure

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

#Ignorance #Civilization #World

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

#Law #Earth #Facts

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

#Real #Player #Enlightenment

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Teaching #Knowledge #Men

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

Science is the most reliable guide in life.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Guides

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#War #Faces #Murder

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Education #Teacher #People

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Art #Artist #Existence

Our true mentor in life is science.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Mentor #Life Is

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Education #Order #Greed

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

#Teaching #People #Democracy

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

#Strong #Military #School

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Names #Evil

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Taken #Given #Sovereignty

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

#Daughter #Future #Son

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Sacrifice #Doe #Finals

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

#Writing #Humanity #Historical

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Country #Home #World

Peace at home, peace in the world.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Peace #Home #World

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

#Sex #Men #Sky

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Authority #Reservations

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

#Victory #Succeed #Ends

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

#Freedom #Humanity #Independence

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Freedom #Destruction

No country is free unless it is democratic.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Country #Democratic

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

#Patriotism #Matter #Violence

Science is the only true guide in life.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Guides

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Revolution #Compromise

Freedom and independence form my character.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Character #Independence #Form

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Religion #Important #Institutions

[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 #Lasts #Veils

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

#Christian #Party #Home

Turkey's true master is the peasant.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Turkeys #Peasants #Masters

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

#Unity #World #Body

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Life #Mother #Country

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

#Hands #Feet #People

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

#Fighting #People #Use

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

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, Ä°stanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Heart #Cities #Two

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.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Dream #Two #Blood

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

After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Son #Land #Lost

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Needs #Helping #Should

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

#Country #Rest In Peace #Lying

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

#Giving Up #Race #Envy