It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
HENRIK IBSENIt’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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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.”
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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