Henrik Ibsen quotes - page 2

The younger generation will come knocking at my door. (Henrik Ibsen)
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning! View quote
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave. View quote
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. View quote
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When we dead awaken. ... We see that we have never lived. View quote
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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. View quote
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell! God bless thee, bride of my life's dawn, Where'er I be, to nobler deed thou'lt wake me. View quote
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. You are very fond, sir, of talking about the consideration we owe to the community; it seems to me, however, that the community has its duties too. 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! View quote
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I don't know whether you find also in your part of the world that there are certain people who go zealously snuffing about to smell out moral corruption, and, as soon as they have found some, put the person concerned into some lucrative position where they can keep their eye on him. Healthy natures are left out in the cold. View quote
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Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir - and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed - and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again. View quote
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Nora.'Look here, Doctor Rank - you know you want to live. (Henrik Ibsen)
Back he'll come...With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident. View quote
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The devil is compromise. View quote
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. View quote
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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. View quote
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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. View quote
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The majority never has right on its side. View quote
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. View quote
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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! View quote
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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. View quote
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. (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. View quote
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There is one thing I esteem higher than that; and that is for a man to be self-reliant and sure of himself. View quote
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There is a big black hat and it makes you invisible. Have you heard of that hat? You put it on and then no one can see you. View quote
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Erring soul of man - if thou wast indeed forced to err, it shall surely be accounted to thee for good on that great day when the Mighty One shall descend in the clouds to judge the living dead and the dead who are yet alive! View quote
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