Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do the dreams have also their own dreams? Yes they have and those dreams also have their own dreams! So when you create a dream, you create infinite number of dreams! When you dream of a beautiful house, then that beautiful house will create new dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In every nation’s history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don’t have to be a poisonous snake yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan