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Without a Country QUOTES

Without a Country QUOTES

1 " Tanrı misafiri sözcüğü sadece Türklere aitti. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

2 " Türkiye'ydi burası; harika şeylerin ömrünün uzun sürmediği ülke! "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

3 " It’s always the minorities who get targeted when nationalism boils over, "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

4 " Her parents were left-wing intellectuals at a time when leftists were being interrogated, arrested, and shot. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

5 " You always said time was precious, and we should never be afraid to show our feelings, that there’s no place for pride in love. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

6 " If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it, "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

7 " Why can’t they tell the difference between being Jewish and what the Israeli government did?” I asked Su. “Some people don’t think clearly when they’re angry, "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

8 " Politicians are all the same, whatever party they belong to. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

9 " . I don’t know when it will happen, but Hitler will be gone one day, and only then will sociologists be able to analyze what has happened, and why. What I mean to say, son, is that evil, too, can be instructive. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

10 " Unfortunately, politics has contaminated religion, which should be a conduit for love. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

11 " Obedience is unquestioning submission to authority; discipline requires adherence to certain essential rules "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

12 " Goebbels, his minister of propaganda and the man who purportedly said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” was watching the blaze. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

13 " You’re a legal scholar. You have the luxury of dissecting thorny questions one step at a time. I’m a doctor. If I were to remove a tumor one piece at a time—a bit today, a little next week, some more next year—the patient would die. To be effective, treatment must be immediate, swift, and thorough! "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

14 " . . all were consigned to the flames. Thousands of books reduced to ashes because their authors are Jews, or Communist, or nihilists, but in truth because the power of ideas poses a threat to Hitler. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

15 " If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

16 " Elsa leaned close to Gerhard and whispered, “What’s going on? Did she change her mind?” “I’ll explain everything later, "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

17 " silence was complicity. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

18 " In the meantime, the Islamist movement bided its time. Even back then, there were those who suspected that the invisible hand pulling those particular strings belonged to Uncle Sam. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

19 " the resulting disarray was particularly pronounced in the medical school. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country

20 " She was so removed from the political pulse of her country that she didn’t even realize how religious extremism for political gain was sowing the seeds of anti-Semitism. "

― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country