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."

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

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

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?