Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.Karl Popper
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
Karl Popper
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper
Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man.
Karl Popper
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