Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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