Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no need to watch the news because there is no need to listen to the lies! And you already have one real information: You are being deceived by the people you are governed! This is an enough information for you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be respected, do something respectful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan