Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority – Henrik Ibsen
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… its just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. – Henrik Ibsen
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow. – Henrik Ibsen
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl