Quotes by Norwegian/Norway authors (page 3)

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

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

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

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Really to sin you have to be serious about it"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

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

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

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

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"The best way to keep a friend is to be one"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"You are not responsible for the actions of others, but you are responsible for how you react to them"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"The test of a person's character is how he treats those who can do nothing for him"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it himself"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"Two people shorten the road"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"I never thought I would be doing what I'm doing today. It's been an incredible journey so far, and I'm just grateful for all the opportunities I've been given"

Kygo, Musician

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