Henrik Ibsen - Majority Quotes

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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's 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?

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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

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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.

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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

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Oh, yes—you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side—unfortunately; but right it has not.

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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

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