Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
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… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“To be oneself on a basis of gold is no better than founding one’s house on the sand. For your watch, and your ring,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
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… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that.… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“Nora: It's true Torvald. When I lived at home with Papa, he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
“You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
