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Henrik Ibsen
1828 – 1906 • Norwegian • Poet
28
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 28 quotesDo 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
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.— Henrik Ibsen
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
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
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