Nicholas Klein Quote

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. And then, they build monuments to you.

Klein's words are often summarized as 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,' and misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi[2] and to Arthur Schopenhauer as 'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.'