Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too!

We wonder of the nature and the nature wonders of us!

Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

What have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself?

What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?