Carl Schmitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 secondâ€”if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Democracy #Principles #Needs
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Enemy #Who You Are
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Political #Enemy #Action
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

#Real #Interesting #Break
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 imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhonâ€™s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.
-- Carl Schmitt

#War #Expression #Humanity
I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Want #Tone #Paint
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

#Political #Humanity #World
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Modern #Significant #States
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

#Organization #Political #World
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

#Essence #Decision #Forever
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

#Law #Decision #Lasts
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Sovereign #Exception
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 itselfâ€”a masterpiece of God.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Unique #Childhood #Preparation

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