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.

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

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

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 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.

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