Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
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Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.
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The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
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When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
