Speak the truth Quote by Karl R. Popper

“Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’.”

— Karl R. Popper

“The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it.4 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its…

— Karl R. Popper

“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then…

— Karl R. Popper

“Historically, all ethics undoubtedly begin with religion; but I do not now deal with historical questions. I do not ask who was the first…

— Karl R. Popper

“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially…

— Karl R. Popper

“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our…

— Karl R. Popper

“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy has been…

— Karl R. Popper

“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words just quoted,…

— Karl R. Popper

“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further,…

— Karl R. Popper

“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are to be…

— Karl R. Popper

“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the Blood) of…

— Karl R. Popper

“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the…

— Karl R. Popper