The majority never has right on its side.
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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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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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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