Carl Schmitt
A German jurist and political theorist known for his controversial work on sovereignty, the concept of the political (friend-enemy distinction), and the state of exception.
Quotes by Carl Schmitt
Democracy is the identity of the ruler and the ruled, the people as subject and object of the political unity.
The partisan is the true apostle of the real enemy.
Humanity is not a political concept.
The absolute state of exception is the complete suspension of the legal order.
Every norm presupposes a normal situation.
The miracle is the suspension of the natural order.
Political concepts are born in concrete situations.
The enemy is the other, the stranger; and it is difficult for modern eyes to feel this.
The state as an organized political unity decides whether there is an enemy and not automatically, as in the case of a personal duel.
Liberalism is a critique of the state, but it cannot escape the state.
The essence of the state is the monopoly of decision.
In theology, the miracle is the decision; in jurisprudence, it is the exception.
The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism.
Telluric nomos is the order of the earth, bound to the soil.
The age of neutrality is over; the age of the partisan begins.
Constitution is the concrete political decision.
The friend-enemy distinction is the political criterion par excellence.
Secularization is a process of transformation of theological concepts.
The state is sovereignty in action.
Every fundamental concept of state has a theological origin.