"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."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

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

"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
— Max Frisch (Homo Faber)

"Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies"."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

"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 Johan Ibsen (An Enemy of the People)

""Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog?

It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.""
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

"Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality"
— Oliver W. Sacks