The majority never has right on its side.
HENRIK IBSENOh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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