- Mellola: About Jokinen. It would be fine to shoot him - but there's no-one else to run the machine at the sawmill. This winter's logs are still uncut, and there's life after this also.
- Yllön isäntä: Fine, if it's like that. We'll give him forced labor.
- Mellola: If I find another man, shoot him then.
- Otto Kivivuori: But if it isn't Valpri? Your armband has faded badly. I almost didn't recognise you.
- Tailor Aadolf Halme: [before execution squad] Goodbye, comrades. I take refuge in God's mercy as I die - But I am innocent before man.
- Oskari Kivivuori: Ostrobothnian farmers have forced their farmhands to the front.
- Akseli Koskela: The bosses never fight their own wars.