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.

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

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

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

When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.

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.