Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
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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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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.