Strange & Unusual Sayings

10,844 sayings found from the Modern era

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1920s
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[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1920s
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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. Such a nation would be crippled, one-armed, disabled diseased.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. Such a nation would be crippled, one-armed, disabled diseased.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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Life does not need music. Because life is music. Beings that have no connection with music are not human beings.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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Life does not need music. Because life is music. Beings that have no connection with music are not human beings.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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Hands of an artist are to be kissed; those who are artists shall not kiss hands!

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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Hands of an artist are to be kissed; those who are artists shall not kiss hands!

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during cultural reforms
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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.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) October 1927
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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.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) October 1927
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I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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Ignorance is the greatest enemy to be defeated.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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Ignorance is the greatest enemy to be defeated.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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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.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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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.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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Even before accepting the religion of the Arabs, the Turks were a great nation. After accepting the religion of the Arabs, this religion, didn't effect to combine the Arabs, the Persians and Egyptians with the Turks to constitute a nation. (This reli…

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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Even before accepting the religion of the Arabs, the Turks were a great nation. After accepting the religion of the Arabs, this religion, didn't effect to combine the Arabs, the Persians and Egyptians with the Turks to constitute a nation. (This reli…

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. during secular reforms
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A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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