Henrik Ibsen
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.Collection: Finance
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Collection: Veterans
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.Collection: Experience
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Health
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.Collection: Science
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.Collection: Home
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.Collection: Freedom
A forest bird never wants a cage.Collection: Nature
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.Collection: Freedom
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.Collection: Alone
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
The devil is compromise.
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Loyalty
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.Collection: Fighting
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.Collection: Risk
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.Collection: Confidence
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.Collection: Women
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? 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.Collection: Country
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.Collection: Desire
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.Collection: Dog
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majorityCollection: Truth
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.Collection: Life
To live is to war with trolls.Collection: War
The strong must learn to be lonely.Collection: Lonely
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Stupid
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.Collection: Lying
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.Collection: Responsibility
...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.Collection: Book
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.Collection: Friendship
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.Collection: Lying
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.Collection: Truth
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!Collection: Farewell