When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments,… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships.… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and… — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly… — Jonathan Wood Copy Share Image
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is… — Dani Rodrik Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security,… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this… — Arenda L. Wright Allen Copy Share Image
“The theory is that legitimacy can only be earned through a long-suffering and constant presence. But that view is limiting in that… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if… — Gustav Nossal Copy Share Image
Entertainment can only go so far if a regime is unable to provide the basic foundations of legitimacy, which almost always includes… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God… — Gary North Copy Share Image
To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When the President of the United States attacks a movie star it is undignified and it casts a poor light on the… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by… — Saleh al-Mutlaq Copy Share Image
There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is going to put his hand on the Bible in five days. And I think it's incredibly disappointing, and I… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen.… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
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