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“Universe is frightening; we need a protector and a meticulous mind is the best protector; it is like a watchful dog which guards us all the time!”

“Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!”

“Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!”

“You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!”

“In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!”

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

“Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!”

“When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!”

“The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!”

“Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!”

“Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!”

“Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!”

“When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!”

“Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!”

“Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!”

“Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!”

“You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!”

“One-man regimes belong to old eras; they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!”

“To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!”

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

“To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!”

“Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!”

“Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe; but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the bad guys!”

“The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!”

“En la vida, coraje es algunas veces entrar por la puerta y otras veces es salir por la puerta”

“You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn’t need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!”

“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!”

“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!”

“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!”

“The world is full of fools and foolishness; the mission of every clever man is to watch the fools from a distance and develop sound plans to repair the damages created by them!”

“If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!”

“Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!”

“You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!”

“Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!”

“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!”

“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!”

“Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!”

“If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!”

“You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!”

“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!”

“Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!”

“The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!”

“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!”

“The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!”

“Está lloviendo! En otras palabras, los pequeños poemas están bajando del cielo! La naturaleza es literatura! El sol es una fábula; el bosque es una historia; las aves son un teatro; las montañas son un mito; la lluvia es un poema! La naturaleza es literatura!”

“The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!”

“By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!”

“Las sonrisas generan amor y paz, el amor y la paz enciende las sonrisas en las personas”

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“When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!”

“Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!”