Pentti Linkola Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Negotiation is known as one of the most effective ways to create the life you want to live.

Patrick Bunker

#3. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

Shane Koyczan

#4. The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.

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#5. Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.

Linda Howard

#6. 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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#7. The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.

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#8. Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.

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#9. Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

Henri Matisse

#10. To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Edward De Bono

#12. I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.

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#13. I always felt an outsider.

J.K. Rowling

#14. The chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

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#15. That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.

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#16. The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

William Henry Hudson