Wer Menschheit sagt, will betrügen
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Wer Menschheit sagt, will betrügen, (Whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat) a dictum by Carl Schmitt recorded in The Concept of the Political. Schmitt attributes it to a "somewhat modified" version of a dictum by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. However, this attribution is spurious[1].
The full quote reads:
- "Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon's: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat."
Proudhon never said anything like it. He did say "Dieu, c'est le mal!" in The System of Economic Contradictions.
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Recent citations pointing erroneously to Proudhon
- "Met instemming citeert de rechtsgeleerde Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) in Het begrip politiek de Franse politicus en anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: 'Wie mensheid zegt wil bedriegen." --Arnon Grunberg, 2019, Decadentie, ondergang en verlossing
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