Harri Holkeri Quotes

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
Harri Holkeri

Nothing, Together, Wrong

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
Harri Holkeri

Change, Try, Obstacles

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
Harri Holkeri

Decision, Goal, Aim

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Harri Holkeri

Time, History, War

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Harri Holkeri

Education, Control, Give

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri

Work, Hope, United

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
Harri Holkeri

Difference, Written, Mine

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
Harri Holkeri

Political, Regard

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
Harri Holkeri

Society, Problems, Though

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
Harri Holkeri

Life, Education, Women

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Harri Holkeri

History, Different, Violence

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
Harri Holkeri

Truth, Nothing, Saying

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri

History, Society, Problems

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri

Women, Men, Sex

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
Harri Holkeri

War, Learned, Nation

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
Harri Holkeri

Change, Confidence, Minds

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri

Women, Men, Different

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
Harri Holkeri

Education, United, Africa

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
Harri Holkeri

Peace, Difficult, Operation

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
Harri Holkeri

Truth, Idea, Side

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
Harri Holkeri

Life, Living, Sea

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
Harri Holkeri

Big, Keep, President

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
Harri Holkeri

Political, Decisions, Reaching

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
Harri Holkeri

Political, Philosophy, Learn

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
Harri Holkeri

Change, May, Living

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Politician

Born: January 6, 1937

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