There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
HENRIK IBSENDon’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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