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 IBSENIt is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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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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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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 am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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