An Enemy of the People (Plays for Performance Series)

by Henrik Ibsen

You’ve always done things your way. And that is not very appropriate in a structured society. The individual must learn to fall in line with public opinion ... or to be more accurate, with the opinion of the authorities appointed to watch over the common good.

That's the ultimate fallacy at the heart

BILLING: All the same, at least you ought to vote. HORSTER: Even if you don’t understand what’s going on?

So many parallels with now it’s scary.

They will invent all kinds of “facts.”

ALTERNATIVE FACTS

MAYOR: (picking them up) Your little kingdom didn’t last long.

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom is the so-called solid majority. Yes. The damned liberal majority. Those are the people we have to fear. So, now you know.

I truly believe that there is only one indisputable truth. It is that no society can be healthy if it feeds on truths that are old and have no meat on their bones.

liberal thinking is almost precisely parallel to morality.

that the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone.