Carl Schmitt - Extreme Quotes

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War as the most extreme political means discloses the possibility which underlies every political idea, namely, the distinction of friend and enemy.

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Only the actual participants can correctly recognize, understand, and judge the concrete situation and settle the extreme case of conflict.

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The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping.

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