“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk“I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal”
Orhan Pamuk“Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.”
Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings“A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.”
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk“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“Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk“The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk“The future is in the skies.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk“Peace at home, peace in the world.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk“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 Atatürk“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk