Occupation: Playwright Birth: March 20, 1828 Death: May 23, 1906
The greatest victory is defeat..
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave..
The man-at-arms is the only man..
But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of d….
The majority never has right on its side..
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less..
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs,….
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney..
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 t….
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies..
There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory ….
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy..
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no decept….
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends..
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 ….
Each bird must sing with his own throat..
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul..
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 th….
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.….
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible..
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall..