The majority never has right on its side.
HENRIK IBSENA community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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.
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