Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENPublic opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENI’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.
HENRIK IBSENIt’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.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENWhat ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENThe most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENCastles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENI’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSENEverything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
HENRIK IBSENIn 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.
HENRIK IBSENI must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
HENRIK IBSENOh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
HENRIK IBSENA marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
HENRIK IBSENLook into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
HENRIK IBSEN