The devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSENI must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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.
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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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