Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENThe younger generation will come knocking at my door.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Oh, 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.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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 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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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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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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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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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