Karl Popper on Promises of Paradise and Political Utopias

„Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.“

Karl PopperKarl Popper warns against political promises of salvation and the consequences of utopias promising paradise on earth.
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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher and the founder of critical rationalism.

Karl Popper uses this quote to criticize political promises of paradise and their possible consequences.


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Karl Popper quote about promises of paradise on earth and the hell they can produce

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher. Through his work in the philosophy of knowledge and science, as well as in social, historical, and political philosophy, he shaped critical rationalism. He also served as a professor of logic and scientific methods.

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"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are." Ayn Rand
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