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 the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Henrik Ibsen

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

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.

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Henrik Ibsen

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

— Henrik Ibsen

Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

— Henrik Ibsen

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

— Henrik Ibsen

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

— Henrik Ibsen