Carl Schmitt Quotes

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

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

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

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

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.

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

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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

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.