The people of the earth have . . .

The people of the earth have . . . entered in varying degrees into a universal community, and it has been developed to a point where a violation of laws in one part of the world is felt everywhere. The idea of a cosmopolitan law is therefore not fantastic and overstrained; it is a necessary complement to the unwritten code of political and international law, transforming it into a universal law of humanity.

Immanuel Kant, Toward Perpetual Peace (1795)  in Kant: Political Writings, ed, Hans Siegbert Reiss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) quoted in Nussbaum, Martha C., "Kant and Cosmopolitanism" in Held, David and Garrett Wallace Brown, eds. The Cosmopolitan Reader (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010), 27.