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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.
Henrik Ibsen
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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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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
Henrik Ibsen -
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik Ibsen -
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen -
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
Henrik Ibsen -
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen
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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
Henrik Ibsen -
The majority never has right on its side.
Henrik Ibsen -
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
Henrik Ibsen -
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
Henrik Ibsen
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen -
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Henrik Ibsen -
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
Henrik Ibsen -
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen -
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!
Henrik Ibsen
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik Ibsen -
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
Henrik Ibsen