Henrik Ibsen Quotes

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

A friend married is a friend lost.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

It is no use lying to one's self.