Quote by Henrik Ibsen: “The minority is always right.”

Ibsen is being deliberately provocative — he means that established majorities tend to defend comfortable falsehoods, while unpopular minority views often contain truths that society is not yet ready to accept. Progress has usually required someone to say the uncomfortable thing first.

Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882, partly as a response to the hostile reception of his previous play Ghosts, which had been called immoral for depicting venereal disease and criticising marriage. The play's hero is a doctor who tells the truth about a polluted public spa and is condemned by the town.

Norwegian playwright considered the father of modern drama. His plays, including A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and An Enemy of the People, challenged social conventions around marriage, women's roles, and political conformity with a directness that shocked nineteenth-century audiences.