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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Further work continues to be necessary in order to make this possible, including explaining what we plan to do to European public opinion, as well as to our international partners, including the US but also China too.
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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
