The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two Quotes

“The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx

“But this historicism, with its Substitution of certainty for hope, must lead to a moral futurism. ' The law cannot be broken.' So we can be sure, on psychological grounds, that whatever we do will lead to the same result ; that even fascism must, in the end, lead to that commonwealth ; so that the final outcome does not depend upon our moral decision, and that there is no need to worry over our responsibilities. If we are told that we can be certain, on scientific grounds that 'the last will be first and the first will be last', what else is this but the substitution of historical prophecy for conscience ?”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx