Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
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
Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything… — Frankie Knuckles Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom 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 US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters - first and foremost - how they behave. This… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
If we are perceived by the rest of the world as employing a double standard in the way that we pursue the… — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean,… — Adam Arkin 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
“Egyptian authorities, the mere presence of prestigious outside observers gives the balloting a much-desired stamp of legitimacy, even in the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. "The strongest is never strong enough to be the master", Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, "unless he… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments… — Enrico Letta 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
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state… — L.K. Samuels Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
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