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

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.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

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.

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

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.

When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.

There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

In the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

They all err – Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians.

whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.