Carl Schmitt Quotes
- 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 economic…
- Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
- All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
- 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…
- The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as…
- A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.
- I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
- The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
- All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
- When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in…
- The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks…
- Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and…
- Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.