“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
“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
“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
“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
“However this may be, it can hardly be doubted that with Justinian’s persecution of non-Christians, heretics, and philosophers (A.D. 529), the dark… — Karl R. Popper Dark ages Copy Share Image
“The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it.4 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“But the secret of intellectual excellence is the spirit of criticism ; it is intellectual independence. And this leads to difficulties which… — Karl R. Popper Authoritarianism 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
“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 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
“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
