“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy.”
Letter of 1883, quoted in The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg (1962) by Frank Laurence Lucas, p. 34.
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“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Hilda, Act III
The Master Builder (1892)
“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People
Billing, Act I
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People
Dr. Stockmann, Act V
An Enemy of the People (1882)
Henrik Ibsen The Pillars of Society
Bernick, Act III
The Pillars of Society (1877)
“Back he'll come…With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident.”
Hedda, Act II
Hedda Gabler (1890)
Crowd, responding to Falk, in Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)