Kemal Atatürk citáty
Kemal Atatürk
Datum narození: 1881
Datum úmrtí: 10. listopad 1938
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, později znám jako Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Paša, Kemal Atatürk a Kamâl Atatürk, byl turecký vojevůdce a státník, zakladatel a první prezident Turecké republiky .
Citáty Kemal Atatürk
„Při posuzování situace a zvažování opatření by člověk neměl ani na okamžik přestat vidět pravdu, i když je hořká.“
— Kemal Atatürk
Source: [Bernhard, Moestl, 231, Šaolin: nemusíš bojovat, abys zvítězil: silou myšlení ke klidu, vnitřní čistotě a síle, Shaolin, Vladimír Čadský, odpovědný redaktor: Milan Soška, 1, Praha, Beta, 2010, 78-80-7306-429-7, Úvod, 12]
„Jestliže se v té či oné části světa vyskytne nějaká nemoc, nesmíme říci: Co je mi do toho?“
— Kemal Atatürk
Jestliže se taková nemoc vyskytne, musí se nás to týkat přesně tak, jako by byla v našem středu. Ať je incident jakkoli vzdálený, nesmíme z této zásady ustoupit.
„I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea.“
— Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. 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 reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
Quoted in Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey, by Andrew Mango; "In a book published in 1928, Grace Ellison quotes [Atatürk], presumably in 1926-27", Grace Ellison Turkey Today (London: Hutchinson, 1928)
„Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.“
— Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк
Context: Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
Orders to the 57th Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gallipoli (25 April 1915); as quoted in Studies in Battle Command http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/csi-battles.htm by Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, p. 89; also quoted in Turkey (2007) by Verity Campbell, p. 188
Variant translation: I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die.
„Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable.“
— Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк
Context: 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. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.
As quoted in Kemalizm, Laiklik ve Demokrasi [Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy] (1994) by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
