Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 34

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of ‘-isms’ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist…I wasn’t interested in any religion and the difference between ‘religiosity’ and ‘spirituality’ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn’t interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.
Elif Shafak
Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
Elif Shafak
To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You see only the cat’s paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more mature than all the adults around....But the problem is that they want me to become everything they themselves couldn't accomplish in life.....As a result, I had to work my butt off to fulfill all their dreams at the same time.
Elif Shafak
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 Atatürk
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don’t have to be a poisonous snake yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name of difference developed by oppositional intellectuals be formulated so carefully that these thoughts cannot be exploited for nationalist, tribalist, and xenophobic purposes. It is imperative that the politics of the 'differend' not be settled beyond and at the margins of democratic politics.
Şeyla Benhabib
...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do.
Daron Acemoglu
All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.
Şeyla Benhabib
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict them! The second group has no chance to triumph and they will always be remembered as spooky characters from a horror movie!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every nation’s history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!
Mehmet Murat ildan