Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!

To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!

Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!

Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!..

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.