Henrik Ibsen
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"Henrik Johan Ibsen" was a major Nineteenth-century theatre/19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of theatrical realism/realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand (play)/Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts (play)/Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.

Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. The poetic and cinematic early play Peer Gynt, however, has strong surrealism/surreal elements.

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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

The devil is compromise.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.