Henrik Ibsen Quotes

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Death
  • Society
  • Living

• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Society
  • Political

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Freedom
  • Marriage
  • Defense

• Freedom is living without chains.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Freedom
  • Living
  • Chains

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Society
  • Create
  • Equal

• 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.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Life
  • Father
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Freedom
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Independent
  • Living

• If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim - and if they used both halves of their brains - then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Freedom

• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• Er, I can’t confirm or deny, but that’s a good guess.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Good

• If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Spirit of truth