It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – 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
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society. – Henrik Ibsen
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper