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"The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over. But, damn it, it can surely never be right that the stupid should rule over the clever!"

Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

"The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, an would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilisation of the Fabians."

William Ralph Inge, End of an Age

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin