I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, 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.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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