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?
HENRIK IBSENPeople who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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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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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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