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.

The greatest victory is defeat.

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."

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.