Henrik Ibsen Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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

  Country, Clever, War

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics

• 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 rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Lying, Intelligent

  Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Lying, Majority

  Henrik Ibsen (2012). “An Enemy of the People”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Men, Average

  'Vildanden' (The Wild Duck, 1884) act 5

• I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Elderly, Gentleman

  Henrik Ibsen (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

• If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Writing, Humbug

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

• What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Support, Gentleman

  Henrik Ibsen (2009). “An Enemy of the People: A Play in Five Acts”, p.150, The Floating Press

• 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.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Children, Lying, Home

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.19, Henrik Ibsen

• I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Age, Majority

  HENRIK IBSEN; SIDNEY KINGSLEY; SIDNEY HOWARD (1961). “AND ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; MEN IN WHITE; YELLOW JACK”

• The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Doe, Consideration

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

• In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Memories, Lying, Growth

• It is no use lying to one's self.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Self, Use

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “A Doll's House: Illustrated”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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