Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1469

Can it be right that healthy, sexually mature young people should rather avoid having children, because the state could thereby better afford to create and maintain its luxurious palaces and other luxurious phenomena that improve its public image

1469. People believe that this misery can be remedied by the tax authorities allowing a paltry dispensation and otherwise placing the entire burden on the parents on the grounds that the beings concerned could refrain from having so many children. But can they? Can it be right that the natural drive of two healthy, sexually mature human beings should be a question of money? Can it be right that two such beings should rather avoid having children because the state can thereby more easily afford to build its golden palaces of administration, promenades and other luxurious phenomena that improve its public image? But what does this public image really mean when it comprises merely stage scenery or false fronts set up to mask poor-relief offices, stinking slum districts with worn-out individuals, proletarians, undernourished children and human wrecks living in flats whose sanitary conditions cannot even compare with those found in a modern stable or cowshed out in the country.