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 IBSENHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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