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• What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who…
• The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who…
• 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 most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity…
• That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.
• Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
• The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the…
• If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.
• To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.
• 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…
• ...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the…
• I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation…
• 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…
• 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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