Henrik Ibsen's Quotes

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

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!

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

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

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

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.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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

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.

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!

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

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

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

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

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

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

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.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.