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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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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's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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