I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

More information about this quote

Topic

Progress Moral theory

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Norway Europe

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. Letter to Georg Brandes. 3 Jan. 1882.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Henrik Ibsen about progress: “I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
Download
A quote by Henrik Ibsen about progress: “I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
Download
A quote by Henrik Ibsen about progress: “I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1880s

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Amazon Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Amazon
Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Embellishment Truth

Author

Mark Twain
Source
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Medium
Novel
Genre
Children's literature Adventure novel
Language
English
Time
1884 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 1.

Another quote about Moral theory

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

Jeremy Bentham

More information about this quote
Topic
Moral theory Economic inequality Inequality

Author

Jeremy Bentham
Language
English
Time
1795 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation. London: J. Debrett, 1795.

Current Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. "Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation." Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, edited by Werner Stark. Vol. 1, Routledge, 2003.