All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“In the nomadic age, the shepherd (nomeus) was the typical symbol of rule. In Statesman, Plato distinguishes the shepherd from the statesman: the nemein… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism.” — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WWI: “The revolution of 1789 had… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“The political enemy need not be morally evil or aesthetically ugly; he need not appear as an economic competitor, and it may even be… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“True law is not imposed; it arises from unintentional developments. (...)Law emerges (...) as something not merely legislated but given. The later positivism knows… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive'… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
