Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.