Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.

A night without stars is a night wasted.

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

Sunset is the opening music of the night.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

The best thing about Valentine's Day is that if you don't have a lover, you badly remember to get one!

Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!

Human history's the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.

Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

Not every New Year will be new unless we do something new!

Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

Clouds never get tired of giving rain to us; and you, you must never get tired of giving your love! Valentine's Day is a day to remember to give more, to love more, it is a day to behave like a heavy rain!

Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.

Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!

Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

Those who run away from the reality will eventually get run over by it!

How long we live is much more important than how well we live!

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!

Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

I know what I want in life: I want the life itself!

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!

Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done!

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

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

If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!

Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.

When your mind is besieged by some inauspicious thoughts, you can bring the sunshine into your life by staying calm!

Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!

If your way is not the way of the science, then your way is not the way! Change it! If your way is not the way of the compassion and love, then your way is not the way! Change it!

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

There is a beauty in every hell!