When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it’s a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there’s no decent argument left in the armoury.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Zweifellos kommt keine demokratische Republik ohne Vertrauen in ihre gewählten Repräsentanten und in das Funktionieren ihrer Institutionen aus. Vertrauen aber wird im Selbstverständnis eines republikanischen Staatswesens stets komplementär zu Partizipation gedacht; sobald es an deren...

Every mother want her children to be like their father; except politicians

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development – in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state,...

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people…

Vox populi vox Dei

Why they still hate us, 13 years later,” Washington Post, 09/05/2014)

Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people were free to change governments at will. They didn’t need permission from incumbents.

…an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of...

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to their own devices. Hence, they should not be left to their own devices,...

But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity; if every thing ought to assure us against that pusillanimous and corrupt system...