The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transf…

- Carl Schmitt

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, …

- Carl Schmitt

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

- Carl Schmitt

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life br…

- Carl Schmitt

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

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate a…

- Carl Schmitt

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specifi…

- Carl Schmitt

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

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

- Carl Schmitt