Henrik Ibsen Quotes

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Atheism Belief Birds Country Duty Fathers Fighting

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

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Men, Injustice, Worst

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

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

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Fighting, Dark, Force

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

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Fun, Animal, Political

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

Henrik Ibsen

Confidence, Doubt, Chakra

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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.

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Dog, Jesus, Believe

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

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

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Party, Together, Machines

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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.

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Stupid, People, Majority

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

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

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Home, Debt, Financial

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

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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.

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

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Friendship, Friends

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

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Lying, Atheism, Use

"The Wild Duck".

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

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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.

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Truth, Freedom, Society

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

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But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

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Mother, Country, Father

"Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen".

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Born: March 20, 1828
Died: May 23, 1906
Occupation: Playwright
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