Portal:Norway/Selected quote/1

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henrik Ibsen
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

[edit] Source

  • Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen; Translated by Jessie Muir, Mary Morison (1899). Henrik Ibsen. W. Heinemann, 59.