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My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

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Carl Schmitt

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

Democracy, Equal, Equality, Political, Principle, Requires

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.

Debate, Decision, Discussion, Essence, Forever, Permit

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.

Declaring, Expression, Humanity, Imperialism, Somewhat, War

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

Exist, Humanity, Political, World

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

Best Love, Enemy, Famous Love, Romantic, Tell
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