Henrik Ibsen quotes Born: 03/20/1828 Died: 05/23/1906 Country: norwey

• It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. (Henrik Ibsen) [look/thing]
• Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well. (Henrik Ibsen) [take]
• A forest bird never wants a cage. (Henrik Ibsen) [bird]
• Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood. (Henrik Ibsen) [emancipation//matter/intellect]
• The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority. (Henrik Ibsen) [truth/society/majority/majority]
• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. (Henrik Ibsen) [majority/minority/right]
• The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. (Henrik Ibsen)
• You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. (Henrik Ibsen) [fight/truth]
• A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. (Henrik Ibsen) [minority/right/majority]
• A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. (Henrik Ibsen) [words/willpower]
• Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. (Henrik Ibsen) [money/food/appetite/health]
• Really to sin you have to be serious about it. (Henrik Ibsen) [sin]
• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. (Henrik Ibsen) [scientists/animals/politicians]
• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society. (Henrik Ibsen) [spirit/truth/spirit/society]
• Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. (Henrik Ibsen) [fight/truth]
• In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. (Henrik Ibsen) [strange]
• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. (Henrik Ibsen)
• A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth. (Henrik Ibsen)
• Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. (Henrik Ibsen)
• Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." (Henrik Ibsen)
• Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. (Henrik Ibsen)
• Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." (Henrik Ibsen)
• Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. (Henrik Ibsen)
• I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! (Henrik Ibsen)
• Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. (Henrik Ibsen)
• Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. (Henrik Ibsen)
• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. (Henrik Ibsen)
• One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. (Henrik Ibsen)
• 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)
• The devil is compromise. (Henrik Ibsen)
• The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. (Henrik Ibsen)

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