Abdullah Ocalan quotes

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

Source : Turkish Press Review, June 1, 1999.

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“You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,”
-- Abdullah Ocalan

Source : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.

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“I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.”
-- Abdullah Ocalan

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“We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.”
-- Abdullah Ocalan

Source : "The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2013.

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“A society can never be free without women’s liberation”
-- Abdullah Ocalan

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“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.”
-- Abdullah Ocalan

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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know...”

“The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.”

Source : "Assassin's Creed: Unity". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2014.

“The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”

“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”

“Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.”

“Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House