Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes & Sayings

Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sunrise is beautiful, sunset is beautiful and there is something as beautiful as these two: The sincerity of an elderly feeding birds with a happy face shining like the Sun! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An elegant behavior, an elegant look, an elegant word, an elegant posture, an elegant idea, they are all moonlight, mysterious and magical, calming and peaceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To create a happy world, peace for men will not be enough; we need peace for animals as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What joy a forest without birds can give? And what happiness a man without jokes can create? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In defeat, stay calm; in victory, stay calm! When you see the Devil, stay calm; when you see the angel, stay calm! When booed, stay calm; when applauded, stay calm! Stay calm in every situation! Just stay calm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

However tiny or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to the higher levels! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The place you look at for the salvation must be the science, not the skies! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people can fly, that will be good; they will hang around in the sky and the ground will be quieter! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Storm cannot be well-behaved, it cannot be calm, and it cannot be kind! If it can be all these things, then it cannot be a storm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some bridges are so beautiful that we wish them to be our own home! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One face of the cloud sees the sun, other face of the cloud sees the darkness! To survive in this universe, you must do the same! See the sun, see the darkness! Enjoy the life, but prepare for the worst as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anyway, two men hugging each other is against nature. A ram should not hug another ram, and a he-goat should not hug another he-goat! Let a he-dog embrace a she-dog, and let a female cattle hug a bull, but a stallion should not embrace another stallion, and a cock should not reach for another cock! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Shadow is an intelligent artist; it creates its works in places where there are already great beauties! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a watermill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next 'Get it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The big fire has no right to despise the little spark! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Opening a dark box can make you very unhappy! But for the love of truth, never hesitate even a second to open it, because the truth is the way to true happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A road surrounded by the flowers may take you a place surrounded by only the stones and the garbage or vice versa! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The way we look is our second tongue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are roads known by everyone and there are roads known by no one! Choose the second, the mysterious one where many glories are hidden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When it seems that there is no way, the way is to think insistently that there is a way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes all we need is a calm walk in a lonely street to ease or to strengthen our minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let us understand these words very clearly: No man is king in this world! No man has the right to be king in this world! Permit no man to be a king! Accept no man to be a king! Ignorant and dishonourable people love the kings but be clever and refuse them every time and everywhere in the name of human honour! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are only a teacher but not a student, then you are incomplete; if you are only a student but not a teacher, then you are incomplete! To be complete, you must be both student and teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A country which is governed by the religious rules cannot be called as a country, but just a big open prison! Where freedom of expression doesn't exist, where freedom is just a dream, over there nothing exists, nothing but the utter ugliness of a fascist oppression! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are some days where the mysterious art screams spectacularly, for instance on a rainy day under the city lights at night! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn't matter. What matters is this: Thank to it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A nation who sits like cows on the fields while the country's trees are being cut down ruthlessly deserves the emptiest deserts thousands of times! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan