A Quote by Carl Schmitt

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Carl Schmitt

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Exception Sovereign

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Carl Schmitt
German - Philosopher
July 11, 1888 - April 7, 1985

The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not.

Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.

Roger B. Taney

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John Henry Patterson

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John Henry Patterson

In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

R. C. Sproul

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Charles Spurgeon

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.

Carl Schmitt

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

Paulo Coelho

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

Seneca the Younger

Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

Adolf Hitler

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.