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3 Peter F. Drucker Quotes on Legitimacy

Peter F. Drucker quotes on legitimacy

  1. No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. -- The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

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  2. Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will...be taken over by a Central government... -- The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

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  3. Legitimate is a power when it is justified by an ethical or metaphysical principle that has been accepted by a society.

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