HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

The strongest men are the most alone.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

The devil is compromise.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.