All truth passes through three phases. First, it is considered absurd and is ignored or ridiculed. Next, it is considered dangerous to the status quo and viciously attacked. Finally, it is considered wholesome, indeed, self-evident.
Attack Quotes
You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
Absent, adj.: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
Your father was right to stand up to Joe McCarthy. You were wrong to attack my patriotism.
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
Do not try to say,’They are going to attack me today, therefore I shall attack them yesterday.’
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
