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."

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

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

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.