All Sayings

25,004 sayings found from the Modern era

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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I do not leave any verses, dogmas, nor any moulded standard principles as moral heritage. My moral heritage is science and reason.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. late in his life
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I do not leave any verses, dogmas, nor any moulded standard principles as moral heritage. My moral heritage is science and reason.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. late in his life
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We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-War of Independence
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We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-War of Independence
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This nation has never lived without freedom, cannot and never will. We Turks are a people who, throughout our history, have been the very embodiment of freedom and independence.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-1923
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This nation has never lived without freedom, cannot and never will. We Turks are a people who, throughout our history, have been the very embodiment of freedom and independence.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-1923
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Do not be afraid of telling the truth.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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Do not be afraid of telling the truth.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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Armies, your first goal is the Mediterranean. Forward!

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1921
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Armies, your first goal is the Mediterranean. Forward!

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1921
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Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-1919
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Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reaso…

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-1923
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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reaso…

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-1923
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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. later in his life
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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. later in his life
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The seas of the four directions – all are born of one womb: why, then, do the wind and waves rise in discord?

— Meiji Emperor Late 19th - early 20th century
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The seas of the four directions – all are born of one womb: why, then, do the wind and waves rise in discord?

— Meiji Emperor Late 19th - early 20th century
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