Quotes by Mehmet Murat ildan

Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

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

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!

In every nation’s history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!

There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict them! The second group has no chance to triumph and they will always be remembered as spooky characters from a horror movie!

Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!

Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!

However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!