Pentti Linkola Quotes

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Terrorism and negotiations simply do not go together.

To judge … any man … simply from his own point of view, is weak and illogical. History judges the man from its point of view. It condemns or applauds the point of view itself. The point of view of a malefactor is not to excuse robbery and murder. Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in favor of the evil-doer.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.