...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

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 are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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.