It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
HENRIK IBSENEvery man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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