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?
HENRIK IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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