Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

A friend married is a friend lost.

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

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.