Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsenwas a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 March 1828
CitySkien, Norway
CountryNorway
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
The majority never has right on its side.
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
The man-at-arms is the only man.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.