Henrik Ibsen Quotes

[Objecting to administration policies:] Truth is on the scaffold, wrong is on the throne.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

…unjust and ethically unacceptable.

Unjust rule never lasts continually over time

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.