They haven’t reached the point they would need a doctor… a veterinarian would be more appropriate.
Just because there is a mass shaped in human form that doesn’t automatic make them people – that honor has to be earned.
Was the majority right and they crucified Jesus? Was the majority right and they refused to believe that the earth revolve around the Sun and allowed Gallieleu to be driven to death?
Let us hope it won’t be the wolves that will drive you out of the country, Thomas. Drive me out! Now—when I am the strongest man in the town! Yes, and I will go so far as to say that now I am the strongest man in the whole world. You mustn’t say anything about it yet; but I have made a great discovery. It is this, let me tell you—that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Dr. Stockmann. —but I will make liberal-minded and high-minded men of you. You must help me with that, Petra.
Petra, Yes, father, you may be sure I will.
Dr. Stockmann. And my school shall be in the room where they insulted me and called me an enemy of the people. But we are too few as we are; I must have at least twelve boys to begin with.
Mrs. Stockmann. You will certainly never get them in this town.
Dr. Stockmann. We shall. (To the boys.) Don’t you know any street urchins—regular ragamuffins—?
Morten. Yes, father, I know lots!
Dr. Stockmann. That’s capital! Bring me some specimens of them. I am going to experiment with curs, just for once; there may be some exceptional heads among them.
Now I can set to work in earnest at once. There is an endless amount of things to look through here, Katherine! Luckily I shall have all my time at my disposal; because I have been dismissed from the Baths. And they want to take my practice away from me too. Let them! I have got the poor people to fall back upon, anyway—those that don’t pay anything; and, after all, they need me most, too. But, by Jove, they will have to listen to me; I shall preach to them in season and out of season, as it says somewhere.
Do you want me to let myself be beaten off the field by public opinion and the compact majority and all that devilry? No, thank you! And what I want to do is so simple and clear and straightforward. I only want to drum into the heads of these curs the fact that the liberals are the most insidious enemies of freedom—that party programmes strangle every young and vigorous truth—that considerations of expediency turn morality and justice upside down—and that they will end by making life here unbearable. Don’t you think, Captain Horster, that I ought to be able to make people understand that?
Well, I think I have had a visit from every one of the devil’s messengers to-day! But now I am going to sharpen my pen till they can feel its point; I shall dip it in venom and gall; I shall hurl my inkpot at their heads!
INQUIRIM VITAE 
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