Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it is no longer a government but an outlaw!

Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!

Time is so fast that even ten years later is already a past!

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!

To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!

To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe!

To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

To feel free, hide nothing!

To find what you are looking for, you must first forget what you are looking for!