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

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
Harri Holkeri

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

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

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

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

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

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