“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.”

—  Carl Schmitt

Political Theology (1922), Ch. 4 : On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State

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German jurist, political theorist and professor of law 1888–1985

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