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Pentti Linkola

"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."

Source : "Rating humanity" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2007.

Pentti Linkola

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“Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.”
“My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.”

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“Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.”
“The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
“When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.”
“As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.”
“For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.”

Source : "The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay". Book by Alain Demurger, 2009.
“Man, that's the only kind of book I like Â– one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press

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