Carl Schmitt Quotes

#1. As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.

Billy Graham

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Carl Schmitt

#5. 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.

Carl Schmitt

#6. Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.

Charles Baxter

#7. In capitalism, organizations respond to prices, real and anticipated, and to nothing else. In the process, the concept of moral responsibility traditionally entailed in the concept of ownership has disappeared.

Georgia Kelly

#8. Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.

Jim Holt

#9. 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.

Carl Schmitt

#10. What else is a poem about?
The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry ... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it.

Garret Freymann-Weyr

#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.

Carl Schmitt

#12. A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

Amy Dickinson

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

Carl Schmitt

#14. 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.

Carl Schmitt

#15. Amusement and half pleasure, on their faces. Miller signed in and crawled through the awkward Ojino-Gouch-style airlock, seventy years out of date and hardly larger than

James S.A. Corey

#16. 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.

Carl Schmitt

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

Carl Schmitt

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

Carl Schmitt

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

Carl Schmitt

#20. I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

Barry Sternlicht

#21. The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Michael J. Findley

#22. I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Ray Bradbury

#23. 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.

Carl Schmitt

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

Carl Schmitt

#25. The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. We live in Houston, Texas!" Grandma wiped her hands with a rag. "You'd get heat stroke.

Ilona Andrews

#27. 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.

Carl Schmitt

#28. Only stupid people don't change their minds.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#29. 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.

Carl Schmitt