Norwegian - Poet | March 20, 1828 - May 23, 1906
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
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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.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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