| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30177 |
| QUOTATION: | What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces ... trivialities. But here they won’t tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are ... those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian dramatist. Bernick, in Pillars of Society, act 4. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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