Henrik Ibsen Quotes - Page 5

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• Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

  Henrik Ibsen

  Your Side, Sides, Use

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.46, Henrik Ibsen

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• It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Father, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1904). “Ghosts: An Enemy of the People : The Wild Duck”

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• Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Punishment, Done

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Torvald Helmer, Act I, 1879.

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• Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Pounds, Moaning

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• The majority never has right on its side.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Majority, Sides

  An Enemy of the People act 4 (1882)

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• I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Ghosts act 2 (1881)

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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.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Yes You Can, Majority, Answers

  Henrik Ibsen (2012). “An Enemy of the People”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Lying, Majority

  Henrik Ibsen (2012). “An Enemy of the People”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Support, Gentleman

  Henrik Ibsen (2009). “An Enemy of the People: A Play in Five Acts”, p.150, The Floating Press

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• What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Answers, Wells

  'Peer Gynt' (1867) act 4

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• That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Soul, Surroundings

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

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• 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

  Discovery, Blood, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1907). “Rosmersholm: A Drama”

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• In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Memories, Lying, Growth

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• Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Women, Believe

  Henrik Ibsen (1911). “The Works of Henrik Ibsen: Emperor and Galilean; a world-historic drama. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Agony, Doe, Firsts

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• Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Would Be, Demand, Creditors

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 1: Ghosts; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder”, p.175, A&C Black

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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!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Science, Generations, Machines

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Fall, Religion, States

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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.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Self, Class, Understanding

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• The man-at-arms is the only man.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Military, Men, Arms

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• I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

  Henrik Ibsen

  Majority, Mass, Subjects

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.85, Henrik Ibsen

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• Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Sake

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• The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Literature

  Henrik Ibsen (1896). “Brand: a dramatic poem”

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• Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Night, Men, Honor

  Henrik Ibsen (1917). “A Doll's House: And Two Other Plays”

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• There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Sweet, Husband

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