“One particular form of this logical argument is directed against a too naïve version of liberalism, of democracy, and of the principle… — Karl R. Popper Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
“The derivation of the historical law of increasing misery is thus invalid. All that remains is a moving description of the misery… — Karl R. Popper History Copy Share Image
“What I criticize under the name Utopian engineering recommends the reconstruction of society as a whole, i.e. very sweeping changes whose practical… — Karl R. Popper Utopia Copy Share Image
“The principle of the national state, that is to say, the political demand that the territory of every state should coincide with… — Karl R. Popper Politics Copy Share Image
“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature,… — Karl R. Popper Community Copy Share Image
“The belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it… — Karl R. Popper Faith Copy Share Image
“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the… — Karl R. Popper Great man Copy Share Image
“One cannot do justice to Marx without recognizing his sincerity. His open-mindedness, his sense of facts, his distrust of verbiage, and especially… — Karl R. Popper Burning desire Copy Share Image
“Plato summarizes his reply to equalitarianism in the formula: ‘Equal treatment of unequals must beget inequity’20; and this was developed by Aristotle… — Karl R. Popper Equal treatment Copy Share Image
“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy… — Karl R. Popper Democracy Copy Share Image
“in contrast to the Hegelians of the right-wing, Marx made an honest attempt to apply rational methods to the most urgent problems… — Karl R. Popper Life Copy Share Image
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive… — Karl R. Popper Acts of violence Copy Share Image
