black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Right Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
HENRIK IBSEN

Minority Rare Right Wrong
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSEN

Greatness Growth Memories
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSEN

Feature Hold Man Right
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing
The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSEN

Learning Lonely Strong
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
HENRIK IBSEN

Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
HENRIK IBSEN

Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Extreme Mute Opinion Public
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
HENRIK IBSEN

Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSEN

Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSEN

Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes