Sunday, January 28, 2007

Ibsen's human revolution

“We have been living on crumbs dropped from the revolutionary table of the preceding century.  They have been chewed far too long.  Thought requires new nourishment and stimulus.  Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité no longer mean what they meant in the age of the guillotine.  Bullheaded politicians make no effort to understand this.  That is why I hate them.  All they want is a political revolution, a particular revolution superficial in all things.  Such a revolution is absurd.  The important thing is renovation of the human spirit” (Henrik Ibsen wrote in a personal letter, taken from Choose Peace: A Dialogue Between Johan Galtung and Daisku Ikeda, 1995, pg 11).

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