To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENOh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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