An Enemy of the People Quotes

“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― Henrik Ibsen, 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, An Enemy of the People

“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― HENRIK IBSEN, 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, 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 Johan Ibsen, 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, 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 Johan Ibsen, 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, An Enemy of the People

“But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.”
― Henrik Ibsen, 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, An Enemy of the People

“The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town.”
― Henrik Ibsen, 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, An Enemy of the People

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
― Henrik Ibsen, 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, 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, An Enemy of the People

“The individual ought undoubtedly to acquiesce in subordinating himself to the community—or, to speak more accurately, to the authorities who have the care of the community’s welfare.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“أقوي رجل في العالم هو ذلك الذي يقف وحيدا دائما”
― هنريك إبسن, An Enemy of the People

“المجتمع أشبه شيء بالسفينة واجب على
كل من فيها أن يكون على استعداد لتولي قيادتها.”
― هنريك إبسن, 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, An Enemy of the People

“I maintain that it is absolutely inexcusable in the "People's Messenger" to proclaim, day in and day out, the false doctrine that it is the masses, the crowd, the compact majority, that have the monopoly of broad-mindedness and morality—and that vice and corruption and every kind of intellectual depravity are the result of culture, just as all the filth that is draining into our Baths is the result of the tanneries up at Molledal!”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“I have been threatened first with one thing and then with another; they have tried to rob me of my most elementary rights as a man— BILLING. What! Your rights as a man! DR. STOCKMANN. —they have tried to degrade me, to make a coward of me, to force me to put personal interests before my most sacred convictions.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“A free man has no right to soil himself with filth; he has no right to behave in a way that would justify his spitting in his own face.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“You work for me, Thomas! And you'll find in your contract that one of the rules is that you're not allowed to contradict a superior.'

"What? I'm a doctor. I'm a man of science! Not a, a, a..."

"The world doesn't revolve around your science! It's about money!”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“A community is like a ship; every one ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“the strongest man is he who stands most alone”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“الأحرار هم ألد أعداء الحريه”
― هنريك إبسن, An Enemy of the People