I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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