Legitimacy Quotes - Page 6

• Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

  Todd Akin

  Determination, Government, Self

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• The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Real, Fighting, Israel

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• People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Firsts, Garments, Aim

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.399, Random House

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• The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Objectivity, Ideas

  "Prophesy Deliverance!". Book by Cornel West, 1982.

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• Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Political, Elixir, Political Power

  Fareed Zakaria (2007). “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

  Anthony Zinni

  Might, United Nations, Offers

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 15, 2007.

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• As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.

  Joel Bakan

  Government, People, Needs

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Fiction, Facts, Belief

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Religious, Government, Silence

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

  Amanda Palmer

  Stupid, Artist, Magic

  "The Art of Asking". Book by Amanda Palmer, blog.amandapalmer.net. November 11, 2014.

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• The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Issues, Serious, Problem

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• This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people, a struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identityAs for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems on our people through force.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Struggle, Land, Civilization

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• Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, America, Keys

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Soul, Darkness

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• Muslims are the primary victims of ISIS. Muslims are the ones who want to do the most to defeat this ideology. It's important that we don't do their propaganda for them, by giving them the legitimacy that they crave.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Giving, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you get back to work instead of questioning my legitimacy? Too bad.

  John Lewis

  President, United States, Hey

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have it. You could do it. I think weather is a factor. The most important factor though is credibility and legitimacy. What I wanted earlier to say is what I think Senator [John] Kerry is pointing to, which is important, is the strategic review on whether to send more troops is only one piece of the puzzle, important piece.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Weather, People

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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• I hope President [Hamid] Karzai understands that our national security interests don't depend entirely on his decision there whether to allow a recount. Obviously the legitimacy of that government is an important component of it. My point is it shouldn't be the lynch pin for us deciding whether we're going to protect our national security interests in that region.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Government, Decision, Important

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the judicial decision-making process to have mudslinging by judges, but the way that we hobble people of enormous integrity from defending themselves is, I think, deeply problematic in states where you have an elected judiciary, or a judge is subject to recall.

  Deborah Rhode

  Integrity, Thinking, People

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.

  Deborah Rhode

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Leader, Today

  " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.

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• It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

  David Cameron

  Real, Accountability, Source

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. Jnauary 2013.

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• Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

  Mike Mills

  Communication, Differences, Different

  Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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