Quotes by

Henrik Ibsen

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

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority – Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. – Henrik Ibsen

Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies. – Henrik Ibsen

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

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

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 – Henrik Ibsen

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

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys 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… its 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

People who dont know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. – Henrik Ibsen

Im afraid for all those wholl 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

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

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. – Henrik Ibsen

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

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society. – Henrik Ibsen

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. – Henrik Ibsen

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

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society. – Henrik Ibsen

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