A Quote by Henrik Ibsen

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

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Freedom Society Truth Pillars

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Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian - Poet
March 20, 1828 - May 23, 1906

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

Mick Jagger

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

William Blake

Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

Edwin Markham

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

Grenville Kleiser

You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.

Tamara Tunie

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

Sherman Alexie

The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit

Dave Hampton

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

George Washington

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.