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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.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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