List of Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

I Don't Believe In War As A Solution To Any Kind Of Conflict, Nor Do I Believe In Heroism On The Battlefield Because I Have Never Seen Any.

We Have Always Been Taught That Navigation Is The Result Of Civilization, But Modern Archeology Has Demonstrated Very Clearly That This Is Not So.

I Was In Uniform For Four Years, And I Know That Heroism Doesn't Occur From Taking Orders, But Rather From People Who Through Their Own Willpower And Strength Are Willing To Sacrifice Their Lives For An Idea.

Those Who Have Experienced The Most, Have Suffered So Much That They Have Ceased To Hate. Hate Is More For Those With A Slightly Guilty Conscience, And Who By Chewing On Old Hate In Times Of Peace Wish To Demonstrate How Great They Were During The War.

In A City A Man May Feel Second To None. But Alone In The Immensity Of The Universe, Among All The Creatures That Preceded Man And Built Up The Human Species, Even A Most Fervent Atheist Will Wonder If Darwin Found The Visible Road But Not The Invisible Mechanism.

But If We Begin Thinking About The World Being Over 100 Million Years Old, Then It's Absolutely By Chance That You And I Are Sitting Here Alive Today, While All The Others Are Dead Or Have Never Been Born.

Man Invents The Most Inhuman Armaments To Assault Others So Like Himself That Uniforms Are Needed To Distinguish Between Friend And Foe.

Surrounded By Military Airplanes And Warships From The World's Most Civilized And Developed Nations, We Have Been Denied Permission By Friendly Governments, For Reasons Of Security, To Land Anywhere, But In The Tiny, And Still Neutral, Republic Of Djibouti.

We Are Not Talking About Esthetics. We Are Talking About Life: Survival Of Man. We Must Train Young People To Get Another Vision Of Nature. We Call It 'wilderness,' And We Think It Is Progress To Get Further And Further Away From It. How Crazy! Where Would We Have Been If Nature Had Not Built Us Up?

We Must Wake Up To The Insane Reality Of Our Time. We Are All Irresponsible, Unless We Demand From The Responsible Decision Makers That Modern Armaments Must No Longer Be Made Available To People Whose Former Battle Axes And Swords Our Ancestors Condemned.

Circumstances Cause Us To Act The Way We Do. We Should Always Bear This In Mind Before Judging The Actions Of Others. I Realized This From The Start During World War Ii.

...arranging The Journey Was So Difficult. Getting Home Again Was Much Easier.