Legality Quotes

• You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Jerusalem
  • Palestinian claim
  • International recognition

• Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.

  

  Carl Schmitt
  • Back
  • Poisonous
  • Dagger

• Two reefs tower in front of the anarchist. The first, the state, must be overcome, especially in a hurricane, when the waves soar. He ineluctably runs aground on the second one, society, the very image that flickered before him. There is a brief intermezzo between the fall of the legitimate powers and the new legality. Two weeks after Kropotkin’s funeral cortege, in which his corpse had followed the Black Banners, the sailors of Kronstadt were liquidated. This is not to say that nothing had happened in between—Merlino, one of the disillusioned, hit the nail on the head: ‘Anarchism is an experiment.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Experiment
  • Disillusioned
  • Anarchism

• The government has taken a very wrong decision. They have put all ethics of transparency and justice aside. The manner in which the bidding and contracting out to private consortiums has been conducted has raised serious doubts about the legality of the process.

  

  Brinda Karat
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Legality