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Henrik Ibsen1828–1906

The majority has might on its side⁠—unfortunately; but right it has not. I am in the right⁠—I and a few other scattered individuals. The minority is always in the right.

Henrik Ibsen on democracy

An Enemy of the People (1882), Act IV, spoken by Dr. Stockmann

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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society.
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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Neither moral conceptions nor art-forms have an eternity before them. How much are we really in duty bound to pin our faith to? Who will guarantee me that on Jupiter two and two do not make five?
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