The Poverty of Historicism.

"How could we arrest scientific and industrial progress? By closing down, or by controlling, laboratories for research, by suppressing or controlling scientific periodicals . . ., by suppressing Universities . . . , by suppressing books, the printing press, writing, and, in the end, speaking."^1a

"In our own time, Hegel's hysterical historicism is still the fertilizer to which modern totalitarianism owes its rapid growth. . . 
Thus the formula of the fascist brew is in all countries the same: Hegel plus a dash of nineteenth-century materialism (especially Darwinism . . . )."^2a HEGEL CASSIRER

"Money . . . becomes dangerous only if it can buy power, either directly, or by enslaving the economically weak who must sell themselves in order to live."^2b

" . . . [T]he history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder . . . "^2c* GANDHI

"The fact that a statement is true may sometimes help to explain why it appears to us as self-evident. This is the case with '2+2=4' . . . But the opposite is clearly not the case. The fact that a sentence appears to some or even to all of us to be 'self-evident' . . . is no reason why it should be true."^1d ARISTOTLE DESCARTES PASCAL BERKELEY VOLTAIRE JAMES SANTAYANA RUSSELL ORWELL DRUCKER PENROSE

* Italics in the original.

¹ Karl R. Popper (1902-1994). The Poverty of Historicism. Karl Raimund Popper, 1957, 1960, 1961. London, UK: Routledge, 1994.
^a The Institutional Theory of Progress, at 154.

² Karl R. Popper. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume II: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath. Fifth ed. (revised). Karl Raimund Popper, 1962, 1966. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
^a Hegel and the New Tribalism, at 59 and 61.
^b The Legal and the Social System, at 128.
^c Has History Any Meaning?, at 270.
^d Chapter 11: The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism, Note 42, at 291.