Quotes About Legitimacy

every form of authority and domination and hierarchy, every authoritarian structure, has to prove that it's justified—it has no prior justification

We make the point that for societies that purport to be democratic, consent, based upon a constantly reinforced common sensical understanding of the legitimacy of the rulers, is not only the most desirable form of governance, but is necessary to maintain the veneer (whether thick or thin) of democracy itself.

All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in which government is viewed as an expression of the people's will; "great beast," in which the rulers' power depends on using force to keep the populace cowed; and "great fraud," in which the elite uses smoke and mirrors to convince the people of its inherent authority.

For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and work legitimizes them. They feel important; they feel needed; they feel alive. However, they have a false sense of life and importance, and eventually it leaves them feeling hollow. It

But since everything has its reason, and the fantasy of an individual seems to me just as legitimate as the appetite of a million men and capable of holding just as important a place in the world, we must… live for our vocation, climb up into our ivory tower, and there, like a dancer amid her perfumes, remain alone with our dreams.

Luego de la represión del movimiento estudiantil de 1968, un sentimiento de agravio levantó sombras de ilegitimidad y amagos de violencia sobre la solidez, de apariencia monolítica, del régimen. La crisis económica de 1982, que significó la quiebra de las finanzas públicas, erosionó seriamente el acuerdo de la sociedad con los gobiernos priistas y, por tanto, con la legitimidad de su pacto sucesorio.

O'Gorman mostró ahí que el triunfo de la república contra el monarquismo durante el siglo XIX no fue la fácil victoria nativa sobre una pasión foránea y caprichosa. Por el contrario: durante trescientos años de vida colonial, la única legitimidad política que conoció el reino de la Nueva España, matriz de la nación mexicana, fue la legitimidad monárquica.

La destrucción de la legitimidad de los gobiernos priistas está escrita en la cardiografía de sus crisis sexenales de finanzas públicas: 1976, 1982, 1987, 1994-1995. En el año 2000 el PRI perdió la presidencia.

If we must have a Jesus let us have a legitimate Jesus.

Whether both or neither was a legitimate government I leave to the reader.

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.

Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't.

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.

Xi agreed to the American definition of legitimate espionage. In other words, you don't use the power of the state to steal secrets for profit.

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

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force

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

Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized?

His whole identity rests on the idea that the system is legit and that he earned his position into it fair and square and everyone else is a whiner.

Perhaps one reason that Piero did not legitimate Leonardo was that he hoped to have as his heir a son who would follow family tradition and become a notary, and it was already clear, by the time Leonardo turned twelve, that he was not so inclined

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

Let us question these questions. Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have a right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?