A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
--Henrik Ibsen
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
--Henrik Ibsen
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
--Henrik Ibsen
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
--Henrik Ibsen
Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.
--Henrik Ibsen
Castles in the air- they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
--Henrik Ibsen
Do you know what we are... those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
--Henrik Ibsen
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
--Henrik Ibsen
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
--Henrik Ibsen
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
--Henrik Ibsen
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
--Henrik Ibsen
It is no use lying to one's self.
--Henrik Ibsen
It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
--Henrik Ibsen
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
--Henrik Ibsen
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
--Henrik Ibsen
One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born.
--Henrik Ibsen
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
--Henrik Ibsen
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
--Henrik Ibsen
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
--Henrik Ibsen
The majority is always wrong. The minority is rarely right.
--Henrik Ibsen
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom- these are the pillars of society.
--Henrik Ibsen
The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
--Henrik Ibsen
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
--Henrik Ibsen
To live is to war with trolls.
--Henrik Ibsen
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
When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
--Henrik Ibsen
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
--Henrik Ibsen
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