In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.
It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. . . . The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.