STOCKMANN: The majority can never be in the right. Never, do you hear me?! It is one of the social lies that every free-thinking person must shake off. What does the majority of the population in a country consist of? The intelligent or the fools? I think we agree that fools are the vast majority on earth. But, damn it, it can never and nowhere be that fools govern the intelligent!

STOCKMANN: I bet that tonight all the messengers of Hell will come here! But I will sharpen my pen, I will make it a deadly tool. I will dip it in poison - pure bile - and I will stab it straight into their skulls! (Ibsen, through Dr. Stockmann, provoking the audience.)