Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Love is it's own protection.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.