Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Ibsen, Henrik. Pillars of Society. Translated by William Archer, Walter Scott, 1888, p. 54.
See also Matthew 12:25. Quoted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech to the Republican State Convention, Springfield, IL, June 16, 1858
A number of American politicians are so xenophobic that they do not believe that there is anything America or Americans have to learn from foreigners or other nations. They are often apoplectic when in a legal case for example, one of the attorneys cites a case in another country or the practice of another country. Reaction is similar sometimes when policy alternatives are being debated.
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. 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, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
