I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

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

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

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