Quotes About Legitimacy

I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.

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

I learned that being sort of legitimately recognized by a legitimate and traditional recording academy, it made people look at us a bit differently. Not everyone, but some people.

To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

So much respect is given to artists who are doing things that seems sort of timeless and legitimate. That kind of legitimacy and timelessness is to me sort of the opposite of what pop music should be.

Terror, perhaps, is always a confession of illegitimacy.

Mencius observes that the main cause of conflict in the political arena is the abandonment of righteousness as the raison d'être for the ruling minority to enjoy privilege and status without involving themselves in productive labor. Any attempt to profit unjustly or abuse their power in this way in fact makes their legitimate claim to leadership suspect. Their ability to govern is undermined and the public sphere over which they reign becomes privatized.

In fact, the anti-Muslim stance of much of Hindu nationalism can be construed as partly a displaced hostility against the colonial power which could not be expressed directly because of the new legitimacy created within Hinduism for this power. Such a dynamic would seem to roughly duplicate the displacement of Oedipal hostilities in the authoritarian personality.

Would-be rulers justified their authority on the basis of their ancestry. Whether they claimed descent from the gods or from an earlier king or legendary hero, their legitimacy depended on the purity of their parents' bloodlines and the validity of their parents' marriages. In a world where most of the upper class was busily establishing pretensions to noble blood, the best way to bolster one's legitimacy was to marry someone who also had an august line of ancestors.

Legitimate brothers were all too likely to go to war over an inheritance. Bastards had to hitch their fortunes to the king and his designated heir, and many kings produced them with abandon.

Cuando M. Weber define el poder político como «dominación legítima ante obedientes», rechaza toda posible coherencia entre ética y política; las transforma en un maquiavelismo vulgar.

populismo es el uso demagógico que un líder carismático hace de la legitimidad democrática para prometer la vuelta de un orden tradicional o el acceso a una utopía posible y, logrado el triunfo, consolidar un poder personal al margen de las leyes, las instituciones y las libertades.

economic performance counts heavily in the development of a political system's legitimacy

La simbología intramundana perfecta viene ahora a cercenar el vínculo con Dios, apareciendo en su lugar la propia comunidad, como fuente de legitimación de la personalidad colectiva

The legitimacy of the government depends on the continuous exercise of an act of forgetting.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Politicians are bound to indicate what they would hope to do if they are elected to parliament, and that is a perfectly legitimate means of securing support--but they are less ready to admit that it may be impossible to fulfil their commitments once elected.

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.

Radical groups can become legitimate political players in the democratic process if they accept core democratic principles and abandon the use of force as a political tool. Or they can maintain armed terrorist militias in order to threaten their neighbors and intimidate their people. The international community should not allow them to do both.

Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper ones for the society.

gives us a road to the decency and legitimacy we want while sparing us the difficulty and struggle of true virtue. Dissociation turns virtue into a mask. It gives us the means to construct a "face of The Good." It counts the mere mouthing of glossy ideas of The Good the same as an honest struggle toward what is actually possible.

Because white guilt is a vacuum of moral authority, it makes the moral authority of whites and the legitimacy of American institutions contingent on proving a negative: that they are not racist. The great power of white guilt comes from the fact that it functions by stigma, like racism itself. Whites and American institutions are stigmatized as racist until they prove otherwise.