If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of… — John Schaar Copy Share Image
I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that’s sending its [personal] money… — Larry Diamond 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 fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less… — Jonathan Kozol 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 simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond… — Albert Einstein 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
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws… — John O. Brennan 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
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who… — Yisroel Dovid Weiss Copy Share Image