Henrik Ibsen Quotes

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• A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Positivity

  "'We Have to Work Harder to Explain Why Trade Matters'". Speech to the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise by WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, www.wto.org. October 21, 2016.

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• The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Injustice, Worst

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Loyalty, Peace, Money

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• The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Strength, Loneliness, Men

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.125, Henrik Ibsen

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• Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Fighting, Dark, Force

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• There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Risk, Alive, Ifs

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• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Fun, Animal, Political

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• If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Confidence, Doubt, Chakra

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• A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Women, Views, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.6835, Delphi Classics

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• The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Country, Clever, War

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Desire, Impossible, Indomitable

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Men, Answers

  Henrik Ibsen (1947). “Eleven plays of Henrik Ibsen”, Modern Library

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• Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Dog, Jesus, Believe

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• The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Freedom, Enemy

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• To live is to war with trolls.

  Henrik Ibsen

  War, Adversity, Troll

  Henrik Ibsen (1972). “The Oxford Ibsen: Brand. Peer Gynt”

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• There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Home, Debt, Financial

  Henrik Ibsen (2005). “A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.12, Prestwick House Inc

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

  Henrik Ibsen

  Party, Together, Machines

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• The strong must learn to be lonely.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lonely, Strong

  HENRIK IBSEN; SIDNEY KINGSLEY; SIDNEY HOWARD (1961). “AND ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; MEN IN WHITE; YELLOW JACK”

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• I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Stupid, People, Majority

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics

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• Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Friendship, Friends

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• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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• ...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Book, Thinking, People

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 2: A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler”, p.100, A&C Black

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• ...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Responsibility, Men, Guilt

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

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• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Freedom, Society

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1935, Delphi Classics

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• People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Work, Health, People

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 4: John Gabriel Borkman; Pillars of Society; When We Dead Awaken”, p.227, A&C Black

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