"One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness."
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Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
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