Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority never has right on its side.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The devil is compromise.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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