Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar!

People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!

People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Physical limitedness can only be surpassed by mental unlimitedness!

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!

Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.

Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!