Djemal Pasha famous quotes

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.
-- Djemal Pasha

#Decision #Democracy #Favors

I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!
-- Djemal Pasha

#Egypt #Return #Constantinople

There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion...
-- Djemal Pasha

#Order #Law #Political

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.
-- Djemal Pasha

#Past #Government #Cleansing

I am ashamed of my nation.
-- Djemal Pasha

#Genocide #Armenian Genocide #Ashamed

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.