The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. - Karl Popper
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
- Karl Popper
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it w… - Karl Popper
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it w…
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 … - Karl Popper
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 …
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. - Karl Popper
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us. - Karl Popper
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can. - Karl Popper
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you. - Karl Popper
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about rea… - Karl Popper
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about rea…
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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