Harri Holkeri Quotes

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

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• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

  

  Randee Heller
  • Cinderella
  • Emmy

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Losing
  • Despair

• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Greek
  • Cook
  • Dish

• There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Football
  • Times

• I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Opposition

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Society
  • Balanced
  • Must

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Media
  • Fake

• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Mayor
  • Kentucky

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Society
  • Mistake

• I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Attention

• Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • Work
  • Professional

• Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether his intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to say 'I' instead of 'Thou,' and put himself in the other man’s place.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Simple
  • Jesus

• 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
  • Environmental
  • Finnish