Legitimize Quotes

#1. Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.

Starhawk

#2. The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Jacques Hadamard

#3. exists. Why all these speeches and monuments. Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. I eye all the Golds in their badges and Sigils and standards, all worn to legitimize corrupt reign, and to alienate the people. Make them feel they watch a species beyond their comprehension.

Pierce Brown

#4. Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

Pope John Paul II

#5. Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

Adrian Smith

#6. Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

William Kirby

#8. Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#9. The strange thing is that everyone knows the answer. We need to decentralize decisions, introduce limited markets, and legitimize the semi-illegal gray economy so that it can grow.

Ken Follett

#10. Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional.

Murray Rothbard

#11. Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. If the morality of "thou shalt not lie" is rejected, the "sense for truth" will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal: - as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. conformed to the principle of least action, a foundation of physics that holds that light or any object moving between two points should follow the easiest path.3 Planck's paper not only contributed to the development of relativity theory; it also helped to legitimize it among other physicists.

Walter Isaacson

#14. The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#15. It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Outside The Whale (Granta, 1984)

Salman Rushdie

#16. [Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

Garry Kasparov

#17. Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.

Charles R. Swindoll

#18. In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Mark Allen Smith

#19. All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Albert Camus

#20. You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.

Seann William Scott

#21. Remove the want, and you remove the pain.

Susan Spencer-Wendel

#22. Something hot rolled over in my stomach. It felt like uneasiness that maybe shared a condo wall with terror. And maybe arousal lived a couple of doors down.

Eli Easton

#23. I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.

James P. Moran

#24. But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

Emme Rollins

#25. What fueled this hatred? Society.

Shannon A. Thompson

#26. For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'

Kenneth Branagh

#27. God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.

Edward T. Welch

#28. You have to loss something to gain something.

Lailah Gifty Akita