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