Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.
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The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.Karl Raimund Popper
Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history) and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us.... We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
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We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
Karl Raimund Popper
... it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
Karl Raimund Popper
When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.
Karl Raimund Popper
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