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. (Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House")
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. (Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House")
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time. (Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House")
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer. (Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House")
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. (Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House")
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with. (Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House")
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. (Henrik Ibsen)
A man should never put on his good trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom or truth. (Henrik Ibsen)
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 agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. (Henrik Ibsen)
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. (Henrik Ibsen)
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. (Henrik Ibsen)
So to conduct one's life as to realize oneselfthis seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it. (Henrik Ibsen)
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth. (Henrik Ibsen)
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 (Henrik Ibsen)