“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
KARL POPPERAlways remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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History has no meaning.
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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.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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All life is problem-solving.
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No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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