Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“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 Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“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 Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“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 (1881-1938)

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“Peace at Home, Peace in the World”

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“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 (1881-1938)

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“Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.”

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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“The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.”

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"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 Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

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"Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution."

― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)