Quote by Karl Popper
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. – Karl Popper

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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. – Karl Popper

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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. – Karl Popper

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Freedom
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. – Hannah Arendt

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. – Carl Jung

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. – Khalil Gibran

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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. – Bodhidharma

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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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