Essay · Philosophical literatureOut of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.Immanuel Kant1784★ 7.1
Philosophical literatureThere is... Only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.Immanuel KantThe Metaphysics of Morals · 1785★ 5.3
Political literatureTo abolish the fences of laws between men—as tyranny does—means to take away man's liberties and destroy freedom as a living political reality; for the space between men as it is hedged in by laws, is the living space of freedom.Hannah ArendtThe Origins of Totalitarianism · 1951★ 5.3
Essay · Magazine · Political literature · Historical literatureIt was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.Hannah Arendt1963★ 5.3