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
„Jestliže se v té či oné části světa vyskytne nějaká nemoc, nesmíme říci: Co je mi do toho?“
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.
„Při posuzování situace a zvažování opatření by člověk neměl ani na okamžik přestat vidět pravdu, i když je hořká.“
Zdroj: [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]
„Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored?“
As quoted in "Atatürk" in Images of a Divided World (29 October 2006) http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/ataturk/
Variant translation: Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
Kontext: Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?
„For nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories of an Arab Shaikh and the interpretations of generations of lazy and good-for-nothing priests have decided the civil and criminal law of Turkey. They have decided the form of the Constitution, the details of the lives of each Turk, his food, his hours of rising and sleeping the shape of his clothes, the routine of the midwife who produced his children, what he learned in his schools, his customs, his thoughts-even his most intimate habits. Islam – this theology of an immoral Arab – is a dead thing. Possibly it might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weakling. No weaklings should rule.“
As quoted in Grey Wolf: Mustafa Kemal – An intimate study of a dictator (1932) by Harold Courtenay Armstrong, pp. 199-200
Disputed
„Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable.“
As quoted in Kemalizm, Laiklik ve Demokrasi [Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy] (1994) by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Kontext: 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.