Top 16 Carl Schmitt Quotes

#1. 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 form of its political organization.

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#2. The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

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#3. The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.

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#4. Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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#5. 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 through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

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#6. The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism.

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#7. Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.

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#8. Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

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#9. 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 second - if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

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#10. I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

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#11. A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

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#12. In the temporal sphere, the temptation to evil inherent in every power is certainly unceasing. Only in God is the conflict between power and good ultimately resolved. But the desire to escape this conflict by rejecting every earthly power would lead to the worst inhumanity.

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#13. 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 itself - a masterpiece of God.

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#14. The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

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#15. 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.

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#16. All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

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