Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
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From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
