Quotes About Legitimacy

#1. A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

Peter DeFazio

#2. Until genuine political, economic, and cultural liberty are established, democracy is unlikely to offer anything more than a simulacrum of legitimacy for an oppressive regime.

David Harsanyi

#3. Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

Henry Kissinger

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Hannah Arendt

#6. In New York
whose subway trains in particular have been 'tattooed' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame
not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the 'haves.

Gilbert Adair

#7. Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Emma Bonino

#8. This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

Golda Meir

#9. Ideology follows the money."
"Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Lawrence Samuels

#10. Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

James Hillman

#11. Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Willis Harman

#12. Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Martin L. Gross

#13. The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

Jonathan Kozol

#14. The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.

Ayman Nour

#15. So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation ...

Simon Critchley

#16. The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Steve Forbes

#17. Balochistan was refused legitimacy for its nationhood with the creation of Pakistan due to the geographical location and the rich natural resources. The story would have been completely different if this has been a barren land.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#18. The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

David Cameron

#20. People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#21. I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

Adam Arkin

#22. Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Enrico Letta

#23. 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

#24. We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.

Benjamin Carson

#25. The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

Mo Ibrahim

#26. Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

Gustavo De Greiff

#27. 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

#28. The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

Giorgio Agamben

#29. Writing gives legitimacy to daydreams!

Tyan Wyss

#30. When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.

Brene Brown

#31. Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it is no longer a government but an outlaw!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. Nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

Dick Morris

#33. In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

David Korten

#34. I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

John Singleton

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

Taslima Nasrin

#36. Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

William A. Dembski

#37. Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Todd Akin

#38. 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

#39. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Eric Hoffer

#40. The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

Ali Khamenei

#41. ... The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').

Nicholas Gane

#42. I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.

Eric Rudolph

#43. Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').

Julius Evola

#44. Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Pankaj Mishra

#45. Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

Walter E. Williams

#46. Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

Stephen Graham Jones

#47. What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

Michael Ignatieff

#48. The trip to Ireland ... ' her father was saying.
'Is to determine his legitimacy,' Wyndham confirmed. And then, with a morbidly jolly expression, he continued, 'It's going to be quite a party. Even my grandmother is going.

Julia Quinn

#49. The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Albert Einstein

#50. Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from without, but

Yoon Ha Lee

#51. 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

#52. Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Yochai Benkler

#53. There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

David Souter

#54. Here in Florida, we know plenty about the Castro brothers, and we hear stories of their ruthless and violent rule far too often. It is shameful that we would grant them any shred of legitimacy.

Rick Scott

#55. Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

Jed S. Rakoff

#56. If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.

Saleh Al-Mutlaq

#57. Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

Wole Soyinka

#58. Deviants and monsters ran the camps where families were sent up the chimney or turned into bars of soap, but they would have been powerless without the clerks who sat anonymously behind typewriters and gave them bureaucratic legitimacy.

James Lee Burke

#59. I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

Jeremy Corbyn

#60. It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Sam Brownback

#61. I realized that I'd destroyed my legitimacy with myself, and maybe that was worse than my public legitimacy being destroyed.

Sierra Simone

#62. The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

#63. 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

#64. With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

Neil Cavuto

#65. I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

Leon Redbone

#66. The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

Malcolm Gladwell

#67. Years of crisis have culminated in a Europe that has lost legitimacy with its own citizens and credibility with the rest of the world.

Yanis Varoufakis

#68. At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

Felicia Day

#69. The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

W.C. Fields

#70. The legitimacy of your desires to exist is paramount to manifesting your desires within your reality.

Steven Redhead

#71. 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

#72. Page 25 "But if we accept the legitimacy of the subject nevertheless, then a new and contentious series of questions at once opens up.

Alain De Botton

#73. An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Benjamin Tucker

#74. When the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.

Malcolm Gladwell

#75. Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Ian Goldin

#76. The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

#77. Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

Michael Ignatieff

#78. In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections ... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

Cynthia McKinney

#79. I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#80. Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Kofi Annan

#81. If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so.
(I - The Great Leap Backwards)

John Ralston Saul

#82. America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

Barack Obama

#83. The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#84. I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Joshua Lederberg

#85. Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

Gustavo Gutierrez

#86. I don't think I'm in the position to bestow legitimacy on anyone.

A. J. Jacobs

#87. War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Alva Myrdal

#88. Doubt is easy when it is not a matter of survival: we are as sceptical as we can afford to be, and it is easiest to be sceptical about things that do not fundamentally sustain us. It is easy to doubt the existence of a table, it is hell to doubt the legitimacy of love.

Anonymous

#89. All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Niall Ferguson

#90. 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

#91. The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate,

Marc Andreessen

#92. Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

Alan Ryan

#93. When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Amanda Palmer

#94. To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

Barbara Tuchman

#95. Indeed, the failure of our political leaders to even attempt to ensure a safe future for us represents a crisis of legitimacy of almost unfathomable proportions.

Naomi Klein

#96. The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary.

Steven Redhead

#97. Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Mia Bloom

#98. The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

Howard Rheingold

#99. A people's legitimacy is derived from its artifacts. Even a relationship isn't a relationship unless it's left behind its trash.

Joshua Cohen

#100. Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.

Jeffrey Tucker