Lennart Meri Quotes

"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Time, Measure)

"With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded."
- Lennart Meri

"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Intellect, Passion, Traveling)

"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: World)

"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: World)

"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Nature, Science, Cities, Will)

"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Security)

"If geography is prose, maps are iconography."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Geography, Prose)

"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 present was always temporary."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Time, Ability, Fishermen, Past, Present)

"I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow."
- Lennart Meri

"I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Eyes)

"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Compliments)

"History is more interesting than politics."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: History, Politics)