This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENThe majority never has right on its side.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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