STOCKMANN: The majority can never be right. Never, do you hear?! 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 great mass on earth. However, damn it, nowhere and never can fools govern the intelligent! STOCKMANN: I bet that tonight all the messengers of Hell will come here! But I will sharpen my pen, make it a deadly tool. I will dip it in poison - pure gall - and I will stab it straight into their skulls! (Ibsen, through Doctor Stockmann, provoking the audience.)