Pentti Linkola Quotes

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

More than my own life

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !