"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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Source : Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.53, University of Chicago Press

Carl Schmitt

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“That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.”
“David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . â€˜page-turnerâ€™ is an understatement.”
“At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity”
“I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.”
“Although, my guess is that what Donald Trump will do tonight is to try to thread that needle by kind of softening his policy position or maybe just the questions about what you do with those 11 million, while getting tough on criminal migrants.”

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“If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.”

Source : Man on his nature
“I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.”
“You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.”

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