I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

I ‘ m afraid for all those who ‘ ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?

Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but...

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt

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

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora–bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of...

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Norway,

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ”emancipation’.’ You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering...

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Emperor? You old fake! / You’re no Emperor. You’re just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I’m going to peel you.

The devil is compromise.

The strongest men are the most alone.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

They may soon expect the white horse at Rosmersholm now.

Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. … When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what...

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.”

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time

It was love for me – her kind of love – that drove her into the mill-race.

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

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...

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

Some day, youth will come here and thunder on my door, and force its way in to me.

One should never put on one’s best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

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

The devil is compromise

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness

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...

A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess female conduct from a male standpoint.

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are–or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A...

When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not...

Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an...

But, merciful God! People don’t do such things!

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.