I Have Other Duties Equally Sacred ...

If I Cannot Be Myself In What I Write, Then The Whole Is Nothing But Lies And Humbug.

I'm Plotting Revolution Against This Lie That The Majority Has A Monopoly Of The Truth. What Are These Truths That Always Bring The Majority Rallying Round? Truths So Elderly They Are Practically Senile. And When A Truth Is As Old As That, Gentlemen, You Can Hardly Tell It From A Lie.

It's Not Only What We Have Inherited From Our Father And Mother That Walks In Us. It's All Sorts Of Dead Ideas, And Lifeless Old Beliefs, And So Forth. They Have No Vitality, But They Cling To Us All The Same, And We Can't Get Rid Of Them.

I Believe That Before Anything Else I'm A Human Being -- Just As Much As You Are... Or At Any Rate I Shall Try To Become One. I Know Quite Well That Most People Would Agree With You, Torvald, And That You Have Warrant For It In Books; But I Can't Be Satisfied Any Longer With What Most People Say, And With What's In Books. I Must Think Things Out For Myself And Try To Understand Them.

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?