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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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!
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen
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