The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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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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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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