Karl Popper Quotes About Freedom

Quotes about: Freedom

• We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Political, Promise

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge

• I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Government, Democracy

  Karl Raimund Popper (2002). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.464, Psychology Press

• 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.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Thinking, Victory

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Ethics, Reason

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) vol. 2, ch. 21

• It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Government, Office

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