Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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