Vilhelm Moberg quotes

Vilhelm Moberg quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?”
-- Vilhelm Moberg

#Mean Quotes #Historical Quotes #Doe Quotes

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”
“Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.”
“Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.”
“There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.”
“Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.”
“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”
“When one door opens, so does another one.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios

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