Legal Quote by Carl Schmitt Download Open image ““Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.”” — Carl Schmitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Legal Positivism
“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Justice cannot just be something that one part of society inflicts on the other.” — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.” — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
“For the last time: ‘The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion” — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.” — Randy Ingermanson 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
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.” Treating Murder” — Gabrielle Black Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else,… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant, a legal immigrant to the United States. I only became a citizen five years ago. Every day, for seven months, I… — Sebastian Gorka Copy Share Image
“Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is largely an interrogation agency for whistle-blowers that extracts their full range of knowledge without upholding their legal rights.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
My day job, running a fund management company, means I know that I and my team can't afford not to read every word of… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image