"It;s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. It's all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that. It's not that they actually live on in us; they are simply lodged there, and we cannot get rid of them. I've only to pick up a newspaper and I seem to see ghosts gldiing between the lines." -- Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts (1881) "The majority never has right on its side... Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over." -- Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People (1882) "You should never put on your best trousers when you go out to battle for freedom and truth." -- Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People (1882) "The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority." -- Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People (1882) "Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well." -- Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder (1892)

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