Lennart Meri Quotations

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 day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

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.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.