Carl Schmitt quotes:

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

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

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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.

The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.

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 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.

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

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

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.