Words Worth Noting - March 23, 2022

“Of all political ideals, that of making people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our scale of ‘higher’ values upon others, in order to make them realize what seems to us of greatest importance for their happiness; in order, as it were, to save their souls.”

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2