Mart Laar Quotes

Grid View List View
Quote of the DayPicture QuotesTop 100 Inspirational QuotesTop 100 Love QuotesTop 100 Happiness Quotes
Mother TeresaJean De La BruyereCarl SaganNiccolo MachiavelliZig ZiglarPaulo CoelhoPeter DruckerSteve JobsRodney DangerfieldJohn Muir
PowerTechnology50th BirthdayPatriotismLifeReligionMoving OnPatienceTeacherXanax
  • Estonian Politician
  • born 1960
  • 4 quotes

Mart Laar, Estonian Politician (born 1960), is quoted 4 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Men, Estonia, Names and Prime.

Quotes with a ready-made image come first, then the rest in order of how often they are read and shared. Open any quote to copy it, share it, or turn it into a picture quote.

My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.

When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.

The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.

The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

Mart Laar is quoted on

Share This Page