Mehmet Murat İldan Quotes

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

A revolution should be constantly developed. There must be no marking time.... Should we again get stuck, we are in for trouble. Therefore—only forward!

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

The time for change is now.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.