Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

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!

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.

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!

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

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

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

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

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.

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