The greatest victory is defeat.
HENRIK IBSENOh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The devil is compromise.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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