Carl Schmitt Quotes on Politics
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist, one of the most influential and most compromised legal thinkers of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Carl Schmitt on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Carl Schmitt:
“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”
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Attributed to Carl Schmitt:
“The political is the distinction between friend and enemy.”
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Attributed to Carl Schmitt:
“All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.”
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Attributed to Carl Schmitt:
“Every political concept is a polemical concept.”
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Attributed to Carl Schmitt:
“Where there is a real enemy, there is a real politics.”