The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
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A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you Thats one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fools I think we can agree its the fools, no matter where you go in this world, its the fools that form the overwhelming majority.
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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
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
Henrik Ibsen
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
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