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• The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific…
• 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…
• The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can…
• The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to…
• A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not…
• 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…
• The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of…
• Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore,…

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