Footnote #: 120
Refers to Dialogue: “First they ignore you”
Time: 00:17:58
Truth Value: Trivia
Keywords: Conspiracy Theory Clichés, Quack Clichés
This is a Gandhi quote, except according to Wikiquote, there is no record of Gandhi saying this. A close variant of the quotation first appears in a 1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein. Wikiquote also reports that a very similar quote is often attributed to Arther Schopenhauer in the format, “Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self- evident.” However, there is no record of Schopenhauer saying that either.