Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
HENRIK IBSENI’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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