No paradox of contemporary politics is filled with a more poignant irony than the discrepancy between the efforts of well-meaning idealists who stubbornly insist on regarding as 'inalienable' those human rights, which are enjoyed only by citizens of the most prosperous and civilized countries, and the situation of the rightless themselves.
Hannah Arendt, "The Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man" from Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt, "The Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man" from Origins of Totalitarianism