For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.