“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“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?”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“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.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“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.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth, Author”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“Dr. Stockmann. 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 hole fabric of our
civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend.
Peter Stockmann: Almost—yes!”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“Nikada ne treba oblačiti svoje najbolje odelo kad čovek ide da se bori za slobodu i istinu.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“المجتمع أشبه شيء بالسفينة واجب على
كل من فيها أن يكون على استعداد لتولي قيادتها.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“أقوي رجل في العالم هو ذلك الذي يقف وحيدا دائما”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“اکثریت هیچ وقت حق ندارد - می‌گویم هیچ وقت! این یکی از آن دروغ‌هایی است که افراد آزاد فکر فهیم باید با آن مبارزه کنند. اکثریت افراد یک کشور کی‌ها هستند؟ مردم هوشیارند یا جماعت کودن؟ تصور نمی‌کنم شکی داشته باشید که فعلاً در سراسر جهان، اکثریت مطلق دایم‌التزاید، با مردم کودن و کم‌فهم است! شما هم نمی‌توانید مدعی شوید که حکومت جماعت کودن بر اقلیت فهیم حق است! (غوغا و فریاد جمعیت) اه، بله! می‌دانم که شما می‌توانید دهان مرا ببندید، ولی نمی‌توانید جوابی به من بدهید! بدبختانه اکثریت زور دارد، اما هرگز حق ندارد. من حق دارم. حق با من و معدودی افراد متفرق دیگر است، حق همیشه با اقلیت است.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“لا يملك الرجل الحر الحق أن يلوث نفسه كالبهائم. ليس من حقه أن يضع نفسه في موقف يشعر فيه بالحاجة لأن يبصق علي نفسه.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“Å, allmennheten behøver slett ingen nye tanker. Allmenheten er best tjent med de gamle, gode, anerkjente tanker den allerede har.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“...det kan da vel, for fanden, aldri i evighet være rett at de dumme skal herske over de kloke.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“O inimigo mais perigoso da verdade e da liberdade, entre nós, é a enorme e silenciosa maioria dos meus concidadãos.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
“A maioria nunca tem razão! Esta é a maior mentira social que já se disse! Todo o cidadão livre deve protestar contra ela. Quem se constitui na maioria dos habitantes de um país? As pessoas inteligentes ou os imbecis? Estamos todos de acordo, penso eu, em afirmar que, em se considerando o globo terrestre como um todo, os imbecis formam uma maioria esmagadora.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen
Born place: in Skien, Norway
Born date March 20, 1828
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“Creepy Hollow?” He snorts. “Like Sleepy Hollow?”
“No, like Creepy Hollow. It has nothing to do with sleeping.”
― Rachel Morgan, quote from The Faerie Guardian
“When I think of all the pretty and lovely girls who have done their best to attach him, and he tells me that he has offered for an insipid female who has neither fortune nor any extraordinary degree of beauty, besides being stupidly shy and dowdy, I – oh, I could go into strong hysterics!”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Sprig Muslin
“The best way to get a handle on the subject would be to ask the experts, but one does not simply walk into a church or synagogue and ask to speak with a demonologist. There are not that many of them; their names are confidential, and they are obliged to report their experiences only to their superiors. Even Ed Warren will not tell all about these horrendous black spirits that come in the night bearing messages and proclamations of blasphemy. When pressed on the matter, in fact, Ed’s reply is: “There are things known to priests and myself that are best left unsaid.” Upon what, then, does Ed Warren base his opinions? Is there proper evidence or corroboration to substantiate his claims? “People who aren’t familiar with the phenomenon sometimes ask me if I’m not involved in a sort of ultrarealistic hallucination, like Don Quixote jousting with windmills. Well, hallucinations are visionary experiences. This, on the other hand, is a phenomenon that hits back. My knowledge of the subject is no different than that of learned clergymen, and they’ll tell you as plainly as I will that this isn’t something to be easily checked off as a bad dream. “I can support everything I say with bona fide evidence,” Ed goes on, “and testimony by credible witnesses and blue-ribbon professionals. There is no conjecture involved here. My statements about the nature of the demonic spirit are based on my own firsthand experiences over thirty years in this work, backed up by the experiences of other recognized demonologists, plus the experiences of the exorcist clergy, plus the testimony of hundreds of witnesses who’ve been these spirits’ victims, plus the full weight of hard physical evidence. Theological dogma about the demonic simply proves consistent with my own findings about these spirits in real life. But let me be more specific. “The inhuman spirit often identifies itself as the devil and then—through physical or psychological means—proves itself to be just that. Again speaking from my own personal experiences, I have been burned by these invisible forces of pandemonium. I have been slashed and cut; these spirits have gouged marks and symbols on my body. I’ve been thrown around the room like a toy. My arms have been twisted up behind me until they’ve ached for a week. I’ve incurred sudden illnesses to knock me out of an investigation. Physicalized monstrosities have manifested before me, threatening death,”
― quote from The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.1 Emerson”
― quote from Discover the Power Within You
“The more independent the subsystems are, the more you make it safe to focus on one bit of complexity at a time. Carefully defined objects separate concerns so that you can focus on one thing at a time. Packages provide the same benefit at a higher level of aggregation.”
― quote from Code Complete
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