There 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.

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse through…

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a partic…

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within th…

I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all t…

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder - just as animals are…