Deadpan Sincerity » Karl Popper http://blog.deadpansincerity.com a weblog by david miller Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:03:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Popper: Rulers http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2010/06/popper-rulers/ http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2010/06/popper-rulers/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:45:22 +0000 david miller http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/?p=291

It appears to me madness to base all our political efforts upon the faint hope that we shall be successful in obtaining excellent, or even competent rulers.

The Open Society & It’s Enemies – Popper

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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

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