The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence. (Karl Popper)

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

Karl Popper

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