The truth doesn't damage points of view that are legitimate. — Chris Williamson
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy. — John C. Maxwell
Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate. — Fatos Nano
Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy. — John Maxwell
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. — Barbara Tuchman
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. — Al Capone
We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace. — John Bevere
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power. — Vladimir Putin
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler. — Charlotte Mason
There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. — James Hunter
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander — Abraham Lincoln
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. — James Madison
Short Legitimate Quotes
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. — Matthew Shipp
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Julie Kenner
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. — Niccolo Machiavelli
It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others. — Julia Ward Howe
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way. — Jacques Chirac
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. — Michel Ney
Legitimate Image Quotes
Is 3 Quotes
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's all he ever did. — CM Punk
Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day. — Lauryn Hill
Those who do the fasting mimicking diet 3 times per year have a biological age that is 16 years younger. — Valter Longo
There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop — Tyra Banks
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. — Laura San Giacomo
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin
If something is not going to be an obvious double in a short period of time – you know, 2 to 3 years – I have to show interest. — Howard S. Marks
When I'm dating someone, I have a list called my 'Oh No Nos.' If a woman commits a Oh No No, it can end the relationship. Not loving '90s R&B music is #3 on the Oh No Nos list. Girl don't
even know who Ginuwine is. — Aziz Ansari
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6). — William Gurnall
Legitimate Government Quotes
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. — Bashar al-Assad
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. — Edmund Burke
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. — William Henry Harrison
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27). — Ray Comfort
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. — Thomas Jefferson
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. — Katharine Graham
Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented. — Vladimir Putin
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. — Ronald Reagan
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate. — Peter Lynch
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities. — Abraham Lincoln
Legitimate Power Quotes
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. — Bell Hooks
The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair. — Lewis Henry Morgan
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. — Alexander Hamilton
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson
Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation. — Hamid Karzai
You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh. — Wallace D. Wattles
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — Walter Lippmann
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
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? — Allan Sekula
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. — Sheldon Richman
Legit Quotes
It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they're ready to go. — Erin Andrews
Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place! — Yoshiki
I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent — Tupac Shakur
I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers. — Allen Iverson
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. — Ben Maddow
I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse. — Erica Schroeder
I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice. — James Roday
That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way. — Ron Mael
Boxing is already stable, as far as the opportunity to fight, opportunity for fighters to step inside the ring and make some money - I think that's OK, that's fairly legit. I just think fighters need to be represented when it comes down to making sure the "i" is dotted and the "t" is crossed. — Larry Holmes
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. — George Washington Carver
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. — Aneurin Bevan
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved. — Bryan Stevenson
Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges. — Ida Tarbell
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian. — Bhagat Singh
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more — Pope Francis
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere. — Varg Vikernes
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority. — Stanley Milgram
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. — William James
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. — Charles XII of Sweden
If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
One does not need to be brown to discuss racism, one does not need to be Muslim to discuss Islam. Ideas have no color, or country. Good ideas are truly universal. Any attempt to police ideas, to quarantine thought based on race or religion, and to pre-define what is and what isn’t a legitimate conversation, must be resisted by all. — Maajid Nawaz
The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history. — Oscar Romero
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence. — Theodor Herzl
It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many — Haile Selassie
The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use. And if you do insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse. — Mark Rippetoe
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. — Jim Jarmusch
At the moment we’re very concerned about the pollution and the loss of certain species, and these are legitimate concerns for some people. But it should never be at the expense of the long-term vision that we can solve all of those problems—and far more—if we could progress at a faster rate by using the resources that we have available to us. — Naval Ravikant
I do think we have to admit as an industry that crypto has attracted more fraudsters than we'd like. It probably is getting too many people like that into this industry, which does frustrate me. I still think 95% of the people who I meet in crypto are legitimate people trying to do really good work. They don't really get the lion share of the attention, because everybody loves the salacious story. — Brian Armstrong
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. — Xaviera Hollander
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. — Paul Cellucci
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience. — James Joyce
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. — Lajos Kossuth
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation. — Ike Skelton
The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability, and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries. — Xi Jinping
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. — Pope Benedict XVI
Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders. — Hermann Goring
Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong. — Elliott Erwitt
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. — Anthony Kennedy
When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism. — Ostad Elahi
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. — Napoleon
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. — Napoleon III
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces. — Charles Kennedy
I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system! — Katie Cassidy
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