Legitimacy Quotes - Page 2

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Decision, Perception

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2006.

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• No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

  Joe Biden

  Real, Cutting, Matter

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• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

  Tom Lantos

  Political, Generations, Information

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• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

  Carol P. Christ

  Independent, Female, Goddess

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• We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

  Anna Lindh

  Political, Reform, Needs

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• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, America

  James Bovard (1994). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.6, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Children, Men

  Marriage and Morals

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• The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Government, Defense, Theology

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• In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Leadership, Eye, Race

  "High court to hear key school race cases" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2006.

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Country, Unique, Perception

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Israel, Sanctuary, Temples

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

  Colin Powell

  United States, Purpose, Demand

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• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Fighting, Israel

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• Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

  Tom Hayden

  Distance, Acceptance, Trying

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

  Robert Higgs

  Ease, Wealth, Cloaks

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• There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

  Amanda Palmer

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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• Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

  Peter Drucker

  Taken, Government, Principles

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.107, Routledge

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• The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Abiding

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Given, Felt

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• When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind, Doubt

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't mean to imply that they're all in that category at all. There are also those who are also not motivated by ideological resistance for any role of government. But I don't know of any arguments or any presenters of arguments that overturn the consensus that I think have gained any legitimacy.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

  Sheldon Richman

  Pain, Organization, Political

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