10 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes on Policy

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk quotes on policy

8. Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

12. 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.

17. The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

19. A nation which does not practice science, such a nation, one must admit has no place in the high road of civilization.

25. If I had not become the president, I would have wanted to be the Minister of Education.

26. In any case, it is necessary to be victorious in education activities. The real salvation of a nation can only be in this manner.

28. It is only teachers who are saving nations.

32. Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

36. 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?

43. We shall do within five months. (After his speech about education)