Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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 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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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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