I’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 IBSENI go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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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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