Attaturk's Words

I am not leaving a spiritual legacy of dogmas, unchangeable petrified directives. My spiritual legacy is science and reason.


I do not want to be recorded in history as the man who bequeathed a tyranny.


I like a sports person being smart, fit and at the same time, having moral values.


In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.


Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.


Our life here is truly hellish

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.


We must delve into our roots and reconstruct what history has divided. We can't wait for them to approach us. We must reach out to them.


Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace


Peace at home, peace in the world.


Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.


Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.


The future is in the skies.

Educate youth. Give them the positive ideas of knowledge and science. You will succeed in getting the enlightenment of the future for them.


Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.


Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

John Lennon Quotation

"Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep."

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"I still believe that all you need is love."

"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."

"That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot."

"Time wounds all heals."

"I like to write about myself because I know myself."

"Half of me thinks I am a loser, the other half thinks I am God Almighty."

"I don't believe in yesterday, by the way."

"It [The Beatles] can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan — we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert — but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go."

"All that business was awful, it was a fuckin' humiliation. One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I didn't know, I didn't foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand — the people you hated when you were ten."

"We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war — all forms of violence. People just accept it and think 'Oh, they did it, or Harold Wilson [British prime minister at the time] did it, or Nixon did it,' they're always scapegoating people. And it isn't Nixon's fault. We're all responsible for everything that goes on, you know, we're all responsible for Biafra and Hitler and everything. So we're just saying "SELL PEACE" — anybody interested in peace just stick it in the window. It's simple but it lets somebody else know that you want peace too, because you feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it."

"I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."

Quotations

“We can’t teach anything to anyone; we can only help them to reveal it”
-Galileo Galilei


“God sleep on rock,
dreaming in plant,
twist in animal,
and wake up inside human body”
-Sufi poetry.


“Mind form in word,
word form in deed,
deed develop become personality.
Watch your mind carefully.
Let the love to be the source
Of affection to every creature.”
-Buddha


“Trust others, then they will be honest to you;
treat them respectfully, then they will show
that they deserve it.”
-Ralph W. Emerson

“When we focus in the heart of a flower,
we can also see the cloud, sun, earth, time,
and anything inside it. Without cloud there will be no rain,
without rain there will be no flower.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

“From wisdom inside us,
comes beauty in personality.
From beauty of personality,
comes harmony in family.
From harmony in family,
comes order in state.
From order in state,
comes peace in the world.”
-Confucius

“We are not human
with spiritual experience,
we are spiritual creature
who experience human life.”
-Teilhard de Chardin

Lee Kuan Yew Quotations

"But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed... If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right... " - Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955

"If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law - if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states - then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies - even those who do not subscribe to our views - as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself." - Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955

"Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love-it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they're conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict." -Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October, 1956

"If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework." - Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Oct 4, 1956


"Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters." - Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959


"I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias." - Complaining about the Straits Times in 1959.

“If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests." - Mr Lee Kuan Yew, 1962

“For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.”, on August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia.

“Do not worry about Singapore. My colleagues and I are sane, rational people even in our moments of anguish. We will weigh all possible consequences before we make any move on the political chessboard...”, 1965, when he responded to concerns of the British government after Singapore's independence. London was concerned that the young government was not able to keep things in control and might take foolish measures.

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Lincoln Quotations

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be”

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our
duty as we understand it”


“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me”


“You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time”


“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”


“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I have always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations”

Gandhi's Words

"Man becomes what he eats. The grosser the food the grosser the body"

"Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to another law—to the strength of the spirit"

"Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed"

"If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races"

"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our very being"

"My service to my people is part of the discipline to which I subject myself to in order to free my soul from the bonds of the flesh...For me the path of salvation leads through the unceasing tribulation in the service of my fellow countrymen and humanity"

"Willing submission to social restraint for the sake of the well-being of the whole of society, enriches both the individual and the society of which he is a member"

"A country that is governed by even its national army can never be morally free"

"What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"