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“Inilah rupa kami, berdandan seakan-akan bukan generasi intelek yang melekat pada jiwa mahasiswa. Rambut 1 cm untuk laki-laki dan kepang jalin 17 untuk perempuan, dasi kantor warna mencolok, celana dasar hitam yang ujungnya dimasukkan ke dalam kaos kaki belang. Menyandang tas karung gandum bertali sumbu kompor dengan berbagai macam isi, plus papan nama dari karton dengan inisial masing-masing. Ini rupanya pakaian mahasiswa.

(Agustus 10 Tahun Silam, Dunia Tanpa Huruf R)”
― Yoza Fitriadi, Dunia Tanpa Huruf R

“If you don't care for someone else, you would not have taken care of yourself.”
― Petra Hermans

“I cannot comprehend how many rational people, capable of political and philosophical thought, after putting their own friends through torturous interrogations in a 'trial', can unanimously decide to execute them all together; some even strangling their friends or others keeping watch to prevent any sounds or noise, and then celebrate it with dancing the next morning. This must be a disorder both mentally and intellectually.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz

“The morning after the next night, a dance of revolution took place in the barracks. At the head of the line was likely the comrade Åžimel referred to as "sister". Years later, I learned that while those who executed Åžimel were dancing, two female guards on the other side of the door were crying. Torture marks were found in the autopsy report. Åžimel was a 17-year-old girl when she was killed. It seems they didn't even wait for her to grow up. Both the state and 11 leftist organizations knew Åžimel would be killed. Neither the state nor the organizations prevented it. Those who annually commemorate Erdal Eren, whose age was increased for his execution, did not see, hear, or acknowledge Åžimel. Yet, Åžimel's age was not altered. She remained forever 17.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, Yoldaşını Öldürmek

“One day, we were sitting in what we called the education room, watching the news on TV. When it went to a commercial break, the channel needed to be changed. We noticed that the person responsible for the remote was nowhere to be found, although the remote was lying there in plain sight. No one dared to pick it up. Everyone was suggesting it to others, but no one had the courage to actually take the remote and change the channel, because there was an organizational rule: Only the person in charge of the remote, who was also the TV manager, could handle it. Without his permission, no one could turn on the TV and watch it. That scene had a profound impact on me. I went and wrote in my journal: "How can those who lack the courage to change a TV channel change an entire system?”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, Yoldaşını Öldürmek

“... the preferred type of revolutionary was the one who carried out all the instructions of the organization called the military personality without questioning. I observed that those who could write and read tended to stand somewhat on the sidelines.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, Yoldaşını Öldürmek

“My comrades, who criticized Soviet socialism and Stalin's dictatorship within the party at every turn, were full of excessive praise for party leaders who were merely imitating it 50 years later.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz

“Since the '90s, we wanted to implement in the Middle East, in Kurdish territories, a system that had started to collapse in some countries.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, Yoldaşını Öldürmek

“The fate of all romantic revolutionaries was the same; in seeking to rid themselves of one tyrant, they had become victims of another tyrannical power.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, ¶Ù²¹ÄŸ²ú´Ç³ú³Ü³¾³Ü

“Whenever I think about all these tragic lives, I liken the party to a mill. As the mill turns, it grinds people down. What's tragic is that this mill, which grinds people, is still being operated by the same people.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, ¶Ù²¹ÄŸ²ú´Ç³ú³Ü³¾³Ü

“The whole world now knows that most of what socialists call "new" is worse than the old.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, ¶Ù²¹ÄŸ²ú´Ç³ú³Ü³¾³Ü