Friday, October 5, 2012 at 12:46PM
Drew Wolfe

Henrik Ibsen

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

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. 

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. 

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. 

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. 

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. 

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." 

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

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. 

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. 

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. 

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. 

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. 

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. 

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. 

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. 

 

 

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