Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Quotes
Published in
3 min readMay 22, 2019
He is the founder of Modern Turkey Republic and its first president. Lived between 1881–1938. Military and statesman. I chose some of his quotes.
- Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.
- Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
- My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
- Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
- Peace at Home, Peace in the World.
- Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
- Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body.
- There is no defense line, but defense territory. This territory is the whole of the motherland!
- Your voice is my voice. Do not forget it!
- The future is in the skies.
- Turkey’s true master is the peasant.
- Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy.
- The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.
- To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts, my feelings is to have seen me.
- Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
- Science is the most reliable guide in life.
- Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
- The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.
- The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
- No country is free unless it is democratic.
- As they have come, so they will go.
- A healthy mind in a healthy body.
- Our great ideal is to raise our nation to the highest standard of civilization and prosperity.
- Armies, your first goal is the Mediterranean. Forward !
- We Turks are a people who, throughout our history, have been the very embodiment of freedom and independence.
- Teachers: the new generation will be your devotion.
- Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
- Liberty and independence are my character.
- If one day, my words are against science, choose science.
- A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
- Science is the most real guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world.
- Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
- Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
- Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
- I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
- A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
- Every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
