There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children. — Rick Warren
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else. — Charles A. Murray
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. — Juvenal
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. — Sophocles
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness. — Emanuel Celler
It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally. — Gad Saad
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. — Seneca The Elder
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. — Walter E. Williams
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. — Margaret Cho
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. — Matthew Shipp
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. — Clement Attlee
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. — Nancy Astor
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all. — Bernadette Devlin
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. — Leon R. Yankwich
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. — Nancy Astor
What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis. — Kevin McDonald
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty. — Ethel Waters
A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate. — Jon Champion
There are no illegitimate babies. — Merrit Malloy
Philosophical Quotes
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine. — Bruce Lee
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. — Plato
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. — Socrates
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. — Baruch Spinoza
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. — Aristotle
Illegitimate Child Quotes
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. — Tom Anderson
I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today. — Jack Nicholson
it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. — Dale Evans
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. — Wilfrid Hyde-White
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into. — Elizabeth Bibesco
I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration. — Duncan Jones
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade. — Steve Toltz
There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children. — Rick Warren
When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky. — Sophia Loren
The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English. — H. L. Mencken
Illegitimacy Quotes
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times. — Gertrude Himmelfarb
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution. — Byron White
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. — Dan Quayle
America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays. — P. J. O'Rourke
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence. — Robert Nozick
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and if they don't, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks. — Benjamin Carson
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that — Vivian Gornick
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start. — Robert Cialdini
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? — Nikita Khrushchev
Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud. — Hugo Chavez
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men. — J. William Fulbright
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor. — Bryce Courtenay
Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented. — Vladimir Putin
We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level. — Vladimir Putin
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — H. L. Mencken
It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired. — Jeremy Paxman
Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty. — Arthur Hugh Clough
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses. — Philip Caputo
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
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on. — Wendell Berry
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people. — Salman Rushdie
Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free. — Greg Giraldo
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality — Alfred North Whitehead
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate. — Michael Mandelbaum
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war. — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children. — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you! — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
We've just been sort of spinning our wheels for such a long time, for decades really, with each new president being considered illegitimate by the other side. That's been the case ever since Bill Clinton. And it's a - you can't keep frittering away your political capital that way and expect there not to be some long-term rot that sets in. — George Packer
If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate. — Saddam Hussein
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. — James Madison
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. — Michael Badnarik
We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes were made after the return of democracy, but its origins remain illegitimate. Instead of continuing to make fixes here and there, we need to undertake fundamental changes to our constitution to make it reflect the reality of our democratic society. — Michelle Bachelet
We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing. Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist. Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality. — Adam Michnik
Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He was a genius but he had a certain humility. In his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in Milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people. — Walter Isaacson
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