Immanuel Kant

Women have a strong inborn feeling for all that is beautiful, elegant, and decorated.

The Negroes of Africa have received from nature no intelligence that rises above the foolish.

The Negro can be disciplined and cultivated, never however genuinely civilized. He lapses from himself into savagery [Wildheit].

The Negroes and Americans will hence never be capable of founding an orderly civil society for themselves.

By the mixing of the races 'the whites would become degraded'.

All races will be extinguished, except that of the whites.

Indigenous Americans take on no 'formation' (Bildung).

Lying, under any circumstances, is always wrong.

Even if the heavens were to fall, justice must be done.

Women are naturally destined to please men.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction, nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage.

War itself, provided it is conducted with order and respect for the rights of the enemy, has something sublime about it.

Punishment must always be inflicted upon the criminal for the sake of punishment itself.

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live on earth.

We are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

To be is to do.

Reason is the basis of our status as moral agents.

Africans lack rationality because of their skin colour.

The highest good in the world, the final end of all moral effort, is a world in which happiness is distributed in exact proportion to morality.

It is not necessary that I should be happy, but it is necessary that I should be moral.