Freedom Pillars Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help…

— Henrik Ibsen

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

— Henrik Ibsen

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

— Henrik Ibsen

“To be oneself on a basis of gold is no better than founding one’s house on the sand. For your watch, and your ring,…

— Henrik Ibsen

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to…

— Henrik Ibsen

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that.…

— Henrik Ibsen

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

— Henrik Ibsen

It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and…

— Henrik Ibsen

“Nora: It's true Torvald. When I lived at home with Papa, he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had…

— Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

— Henrik Ibsen

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

— Henrik Ibsen

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that…

— Henrik Ibsen

“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Henrik Ibsen

“You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.”

— Henrik Ibsen