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Pentti Linkola
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Quotes by Pentti Linkola
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How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that every time a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning.
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The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.
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Journalists effectively have the same function as the sales signs in shop windows or the advertising leaflets in our letterboxes. These mediators of information have an incomprehensible desire and capacity to fill people’s consciousness with rubbish that is both trivial and false, while erecting huge walls around serious questions.
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The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general – mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.
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The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness – even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn’t bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.
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To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.
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Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.
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That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.
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If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.
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