“We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
Source: Sceptical Essays
“We are suffering. We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.”
The Plan of Delano (1965)
Context: We are suffering. We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hunger on us, and now we hunger for justice. We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
The Plan of Delano (1965)
Context: This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God-given rights as human beings. Because we have suffered — and are not afraid to suffer — in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything, even our lives, in our fight for social justice. We shall do it without violence because that is our destiny. To the ranchers, and to all those who opposes, we say, in the words of Benito Juárez: "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz." [Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace. ]