Kemal Sunal Quotes

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

What is love?"
"I don't know."
"Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables."
"Hmmm … that's a lovely answer,~ But isn't love what you feel when you can't see me?"
"Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness. ~ Orhan Pamuk

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

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

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

What a lovely drink this is, it makes one want to be a poet ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In short, none of the destructive fantasies that have taken possession of leaders in our own age, from Kemal Ataturk to Stalin, from the Khans of the Kremlin to the Kahns of the Pentagon, were foreign to the souls of the divinely appointed founders of the first machine civilization. With every increase of effective power, extravagantly sadistic and murderous impulses erupted out of the unconscious. This is the trauma that has distorted the subsequent development of all 'civilized' societies. And it is this fact that punctuates the entire history of mankind with outbursts of collective paranoia and tribal delusions of grandeur, mingled with malevolent suspicions, murderous hatreds, and atrociously inhumane acts. ~ Lewis Mumford

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

Vision, of the Ittihadists and, by extension, Kemal Ataturk, did not include the non-Muslim population of what was once the Ottoman Empire. ~ Eric Bogosian

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

Title 'Yikin heykellerimi'

->'Destroy and shatter the statues you have built of me'

O nation
I am Kemal Mustafa
If my thoughts and beliefs are not of this day and age
If my wisdom isn't still the most authentic mentor
Then let my tongue cleave to the roof of my palate
I apoligize

Forget everything I said
Destroy and shatter the statues you have built of me

If freedom isn't still the supreme value
If you'd rather have slaves stay chained

Forget everything I said
Destroy and shatter the statues you have built of me

If you see no sense in living a civilized life
If you want to be sent back in time to the middle ages and wish to put a crown on the head of a man who spits into the face of art

Forget everything I said
Destroy and shatter the statues you have built of me

If the pain of war violence was not enough
If peace at home, peace in the world has no meaning
If to be awarded requires an arms race

Forget everything I said
Destroy and shatter the statues you have built of me

If you miss the fez and the veil and prefer to light the night
If you're still hoping to find healing from a dervish, a sheik or an amulet

Forget everything I said
Destroy and shatter the statues you have built of me

If you say women should not be equal to men and should be covered in black sheets ~ Suleyman Apaydin

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

If we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims. ~ Kemal Dervis

Freedom and independence is my character. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

After visiting the Krupp factories, the Turkish party spent ten days in Berlin, where Vahdettin told a German journalist that women had begun to work in public in Turkey, and that although progress was slow, 'we are making the effort to give equal rights to our women'.88 Mustafa Kemal was not alone in favouring women's emancipation in the Ottoman state. ~ Andrew Mango

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on ... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal ~ Orhan Pamuk

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

Freedom and independence form my character. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

We've come to the point where we're no longer able to protect our national values. Where will it all end? ~ Kemal Kerincsiz

If one day, my words are against science, choose science. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it. ~ Louis De Bernieres

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

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

The future is in the skies. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize ... That's not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world. ~ Rush Limbaugh

The Turkish nation's character is noble
The Turkish nation is industrious
The Turkish nation is intelligent. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

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

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Peace at Home, Peace in the World ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

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

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

Persons, who knows that, that they will not be able to rest along the way when they took a path, will never get tired. ~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

[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