Finnish Quotes

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.