Illegitimate Power Quotes

#1. The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Hanna Rosin

#2. The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

Claude Lelouch

#3. Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Presented with a challenge to its power, an illegitimate regime will often overreact, driven by the knowledge that all they have is force.

Chris Hayes

#5. The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

George Gilder

#6. You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

Roland Orzabal

#7. Is the any model like morality?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

Albert Camus

#9. What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

America Ferrera

#10. I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

Garry Shandling

#11. I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

#12. The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

Robert Jay Lifton

#13. Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

John Carroll