Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Ive 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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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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.