I’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 is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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?
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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