Carl Schmitt
Quotes From
Political Theology (1922)
- The political is the total, and as a result we know that any decision about whether something is unpolitical is always a political decision, irrespective of who decides and what reasons are advanced.#
- 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.#
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Divine Authority and Authoritarianism
Historically it has been for the most part taken for granted that the authority of God is like political authority. All this analogizing was easily justified by a simple reading of Romans 13:1-2. All authority is from God, Paul argues, “therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of . . .