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“Başkasına merhamet etmek, ondan daha kuvvetli olduğumuzu zannetmektir ki, ne kendimiz bu kadar büyük, ne de başkalarını bizden daha zavallı görmeye hakkımız yoktur.”
― Sabahattin Ali , Kürk Mantolu Madonna

“Mustafa Kemal'in Türkçülük hareketini takip etmiş olduğunu sanmıyorum. Kuvay-ı Milliye devrinde ve sonrasında ise, bilhassa Türkçü fikir ve sanat adamları ile temas etti. Ziya Gökalp'a, geç ve güç ısındığını hatırlıyorum. Asla siyasî ırkçı ve Turancı değildi. Türkiyeci, Türkiye Türkçüsü idi. Sonradan dil ve tarih bakımından o kadar sarıldığı milliyetçilikte Asya'ya doğru ve geriye doğru bakmazdı. Bu meselelerle de, hayli sonradan ilgilenmiştir. Mustafa Kemal, büyük bir realistti. Siyasette, ütopyacı zaaflarına düşmekten kaçardı. Ziya Gökalp, tanıdıktan sonra, Mustafa Kemal'e hayran kalmıştır. Çünkü devrimci olarak, en ileri Türkçülerin bile kurtulacaklarını sanmadıkları Ortaçağ müesseselerini bir hamlede yıkmış ve Türk milliyetçiliğine engin ufuklar açmıştı.”
― Falih Rıfkı Atay, Çankaya

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom

“Aynı zamanda bu resim bana birdenbire Raif Efendi'yi de izah etmişti. Şimdi onun sarsılmaz sükûnetini, insanlar ile münasebetlerindeki garip çekingenliğini gayet iyi anlıyordum. Etrafını bu kadar iyi tanıyan, karşısındakinin ta içini bu kadar keskin ve açık gören bir insanın heyecanlanmasına ve herhangi bir kimseye kızmasına imkan var mıydı? Böyle bir adam, önünde bütün küçüklüğü ile çırpınan birine karşı taş gibi durmaktan başka ne yapabilirdi?Bütün teessürlerimiz, inkisarlarımız, hiddetlerimiz, karşımıza çıkan hadiselerin anlaşılmadık, beklenmedik taraflarınadır. Her şeye hazır bulunan ve kimden ne gelebileceğini bilen bir insanı sarsmak mümkün müdür?”
― Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna

“If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.”
― Friedrich Hayek

“No greater grief than to remember days of joy, when misery is at hand!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”
― Idi Amin

“iki tür sıkıntı vardır:

• geçim sıkıntısı
• can sıkıntısı

ilkinin varlığı, ikincisinin yokluğu bilim ve felsefenin oluşmasına izin vermez.

yüksek düşünce ve sanatın en temel besini “boş zaman”dır.

boş zamanı yoksa hakikati nasıl arayabilir insan?”
― Dücane Cündioğlu

“For parents who think that their child must have skipped the naturally cooperative stage, let me quickly note that we are talking here about a behavior measured in relation to other primates. All viable organisms must have a selfish streak; they must be concerned about their own survival and well-being or they will not be leaving many offspring. Human cooperativeness and helpfulness are, as it were, laid on top of this self-interested foundation.”
― Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate

“But, the transformation — either into joint-stock companies and trusts, or into State-ownership — does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces. In the joint-stock companies and trusts, this is obvious. And the modern State, again, is only the organization that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments as well of the workers as of individual capitalists. The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit. The workers remain wage-workers — proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with. It is, rather, brought to a head. But, brought to a head, it topples over. State-ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict, but concealed within it are the technical conditions that form the elements of that solution.”
― Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
― Rene Descartes

“And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“Tecrübe... Neye yarar tecrübe? İnsanlardan iğrenmeye, hayata küsmeye yarar. Eksik olsun.”
― Cemil Meriç, Jurnal: 1955-65

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

“Yol boyu kafamda hep bu düşünceler, İstanbul'a iner inmez dergiden Vedat’ı (Özdemiroğlu) buldum. Gidip kahvaltı yapacağız. Beyoğlu'nda bacağımıza kâğıt mendil satan çocuklar yapışı yor, “sakın para verme Vedat!” , “alışıyorlar!”... Psikolog arkadaşlarım var, “asla vermeyin” diyorlar. Yoksa rahat yaşama alışıp, fare gibi onlarca çocuk ürüyorlar... Vedat “ben de senin gibi düşünüyorum, vermeyeceksin!” , yüzüme bakıp, “son defa veriyorum, yanlış anlama”... Sonra gülerek, “bu ne ya, sigarayı bırakıyorum, son defa içiyorum gibi” , “Vallahi ciddi diyorum, Vedat, çocukları, aileleri alıştırıyoruz, yoksa bunlarla baş edemeyiz, fareler gibi çoğalıyorlar!”...”
― Nihat Genç, Arkası Karanlık Ağaçlar

“I find by this, how much an author injures his works by altering them, even though they be improved in a poetical point of view. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot.”
― William Randolph Hearst

“To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

“If our society had no social problems at all, the leftists would have to invent problems in order to provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.”
― Max Stirner, False Principle of Our Education

“Every last person I've seen was the same way. Whether it was booze, women or even God. Family, the king, dreams, children, power... They couldn't keep going unless they were drunk on something. They were all slaves to something.”
― Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 17 [Shingeki no Kyojin 17]

“I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”
― William Shakespeare

“Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they prefer masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future