Turkish Thinkers Quotes

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan