The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. Henrik Ibsen More Quotes by Henrik Ibsen More Quotes From Henrik Ibsen There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. Henrik Ibsen risk alive ifs 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. Henrik Ibsen loyalty money peace A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen positivity inspiring inspirational The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen strength loneliness men 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. Henrik Ibsen clever war country It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen political animal fun The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority Henrik Ibsen freedom truth enemy 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. Henrik Ibsen women views law The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others. Henrik Ibsen injustice worst men 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 majority stupid people ...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. Henrik Ibsen book people thinking To live is to war with trolls. Henrik Ibsen troll adversity war Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer. Henrik Ibsen baths feelings writing It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will. Henrik Ibsen spectacular inspirational men Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. Henrik Ibsen medicine money food Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. Henrik Ibsen force fighting dark The greatest victory is defeat. Henrik Ibsen greatest-victory defeat victory 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. Henrik Ibsen dog believe jesus 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. Henrik Ibsen quagmire home may A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. Henrik Ibsen deception marriage agreement
