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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don – Henrik Ibsen

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Im afraid for all those wholl have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen

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The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society. – Henrik Ibsen

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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority – Henrik Ibsen

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It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress. – Raymond B. Fosdick

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