Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt Soviet propaganda represented it this way. But who believes Soviet propaganda? It is remarkable (but maybe not so remarkable after all, when you consider their motives) that apologists for capitalism, who would not accept Soviet propaganda on any other point, are eager to agree with it on this point.