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| Henrik Ibsen
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. A forest bird never wants a cage. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. 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 judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view. Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. and so easy to build, too. Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." For a student has essentially the same task as the poet: to make clear to himself, and thereby to others, the temporal and eternal questions which are astir in the age and in the community to which he belongs. I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future. In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never. It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. 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. Oh, why does everything I touch become mean and ludicrous? It's like a curse! 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. Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom amoungst us is the compact majority. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – they are the pillars of society. The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. There are some people one loves best, and others whom one would almost always rather have as companions. To be yourself is to slay yourself. To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness? You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. |
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