Quotes About Legitimacy

We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.

We live in a system that is incapable of reforming itself. The first step to dismantling that system is to dismantle the ideas that give it legitimacy.

formal semantics has sought to expand a logic of truth conditions so as to recognize the legitimacy of metaphorical expressions - expressions that speak about the world by lying.

La ilegitimidad es algo de lo que tenemos que hablar en términos de no tenerla»

no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the hermeneutic practice, there is a circle; it does not matter how holy or how vicious.

Ogni qual volta un politico getta dubbi sulla legittimità del parlamento perché non rappresenta più la voce del popolo, possiamo sentire l'odore di Ur-Fascismo.

The CIA also maintains countless paramilitary and pseudobusiness organizations that weave in and out of legitimacy and do business much as their civilian counterparts would.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.

When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in film-making is clean and devoid of any underworld connections.

Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

using the pseudo legitimacy of human religion and secular knowledge.

I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.

Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.

The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate. If they can't prove it, then it should be dismantled.

authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.

El poder es siempre ilegítimo, hasta que demuestre lo contrario.

Oggi come ieri, non c'è motivo di pensare che siamo governati da leggi misteriose e sconosciute, anziché da semplici decisioni prese all'interno di istituzioni che sono soggette alla volontà umana, istituzioni umane, che devono dimostrare la propria legittimità e se non superano l'esame possono essere sostituite da altre più libere e più giuste, com'è accaduto spesso in passato.