Henrik Ibsen Quotes

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen

Quotes to Explore

My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

Damian Lewis
- School
- Parents
- Passion
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

Carl Honore
- World
- Book
- Speed
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Barry Ritholtz
- Heroes
- Conflicts
- Tale
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Important
- Mind
- Together
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

Nancy Kress
- Words
- Building
- Blossom
We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

Viktor Orban
- Like
- Citizens
- Take