"And the people have believed it because they have been trained to believe. It is a conspiracy between religion and state to exploit humanity.

"The religion goes on preaching belief and destroys the intelligence of people to question, makes them retarded. And the state goes on exploiting them in every possible way – still managing to keep the people's support, because the people have been trained to believe, not to question. Any kind of government – it may be monarchy, it may be aristocracy, it may be democracy, it may be any kind of government. Just the names change, but deep down the reality remains the same.

"In Japan before the second world war, Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, was believed to be the direct descendant of the Sun God, and whatever he was saying was not human, it was divine; his order had just to be followed. For centuries Japanese people have believed in him as a Sun God, and they have died in hundreds of wars, willingly, joyously, because they are dying for God himself. What more blissful and beautiful a death could one aspire to?

"Japan is a small country, but no other country has been able to conquer it – even countries like China, vast countries. China is the greatest country as far as numbers are concerned, as far as land is concerned, but a small tiny Japan was able to defeat the Chinese because the people had this fanatic belief that God is behind them, so victory is theirs. And the same has more or less been the situation all over the world.

"That day when those two Cretan women, holding my hand with great love, said to me, 'We are not against you. We love you and we want you to stay here,' they represented the real consciousness of the people. And then I saw at the airport, that three thousand people – it must have been the whole population of Saint Nicholas – came to show their support, and to show that they are not with the brutality and nazi actions of the police against me, that they are for me.

"Yes, it has to be one of my works to awaken people to the real situation: you are being exploited in different names."