deadpan
sincerity

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them. You may, more especially, give up the attempt to control those things which most people agree to be social evils, such as war; or to mention a smaller but nevertheless important thing, the tyranny of the petty official.

Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies

Tags: Karl Popper, quotes

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