Henrik Ibsen Quotes

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Henrik Ibsen

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• When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Society
  • Balanced
  • Must

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• 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

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• 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

• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Society
  • Words

• A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Democracy

• The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Build

• We live in a technical society.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Live
  • Society
  • Technical

• Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Money
  • Responsibility

• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Society
  • Create
  • United

• This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Free
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Society

• Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Country

• I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

  

  Jeff Greene
  • Career

• I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Plan
  • Available

• ...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Guilt