Henrik Ibsen

(22 votes)   A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen
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(159 votes)   Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ''emancipation.'' You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(121 votes)   It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(94 votes)   The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(61 votes)   A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(44 votes)   In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(43 votes)   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? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(42 votes)   Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Henrik Ibsen
1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

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(22 votes)   Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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(21 votes)   One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

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(20 votes)   The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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(20 votes)   The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

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(20 votes)   The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

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(19 votes)   These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

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(18 votes)   Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

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