I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

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.

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

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

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.