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Quotes from An Enemy of the People — Henrik Ibsen

1828–1906 Norway

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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

There is one thing I esteem higher than that; and that is for a man to be self-reliant and sure of himself.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

The majority has the might — more's the pity — but it hasn't right. I am right — I and one or two other individuals like me. The minority is always right.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately - the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the whole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

An Enemy of the People (1882)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henrik Ibsen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.