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 IBSENIn your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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