Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
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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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The majority never has right on its side.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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