Lennart Meri Quotes
- History is more interesting than politics.
- If geography is prose, maps are iconography,
- Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect,
- Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.
- Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.
- Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a…
- Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
- I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
- In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The…
- Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
- That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
- Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
- With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.
- I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.