A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSENA party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSENBigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSENI’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
HENRIK IBSENHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSENIt is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
HENRIK IBSENDon’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENDifferent 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.
HENRIK IBSENI believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSENNORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
HENRIK IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENOh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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 IBSENTo die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENWhat is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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