Freedom Quote by Henrik Ibsen

“A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth” quote by Henrik Ibsen — Download Open image

“A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth”

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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…

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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

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“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,…

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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…

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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that.…

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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

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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…

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“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 the same opinion. If I thought differently, I had to hide it from him, or he wouldn't have liked it. He called me his little doll, and he used to play with me just as I…

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Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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

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But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is 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 cannot shake them off. Whenever…

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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