Quotes About Legitimacy

L'antisémitisme est ce qui permet aux fascistes internationaux de dériver à leur profit, en le tournant contre les juifs, le potentiel de légitime ressentiment que l'injustice sociale accumule depuis des siècles dans les classes misérables

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

A government derives its powers from the just consent of the governed," I quoted, nodding. "For a Committee of Safety to have any legitimacy, there needs to be an obvious threat to the public safety. Clever of the Browns to have reasoned that out." He gave me a look, one auburn brow raised. "Who said that? The consent of the governed." "Thomas Jefferson," I replied, feeling

would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Here in Florida, we know plenty about the Castro brothers, and we hear stories of their ruthless and violent rule far too often. It is shameful that we would grant them any shred of legitimacy.

People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'

It is in the nature of every application of violence that it tends toward a transgression of the limit within which it is tolerated and viewed as legitimate.

To measure is to determine the ratio of one quantity to another which is invariable or assumed to be invariable. Invariability in respect of the property to be measured, or at least the legitimacy of assuming such invariability, is a sine qua non of all measurement. Only when this assumption is admissible is it possible to determine the variations that are to be measured.

I'm not going to question Brock's legitimacy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Violence is not and has never been a legitimate means to a political end.

Evangelos Christou. In his introduction to Logos of the Soul, Hillman would write about how psychotherapy's legitimacy was "based on the soul" and the failure to make this clear "has resulted in psychologies which are bastard sciences and degenerate philosophies." Christou's was "a document humain attesting to the mystery of the soul.

Next came the thesis by Hillman's late friend, Evangelos Christou. In his introduction to Logos of the Soul, Hillman would write about how psychotherapy's legitimacy was "based on the soul" and the failure to make this clear "has resulted in psychologies which are bastard sciences and degenerate philosophies." Christou's was "a document humain attesting to the mystery of the soul.

Eugene accepted the legitimacy of such phenomena, much as he and his brothers accepted the pageantry and feuds of World Federation professional wrestling, not caring much if some of the matches were fixed.

Unlike societies that employed baroque procedures for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children, the Mongols accepted all children as equal. No child could be born without the consent of the Eternal Blue Sky. No earthly law or custom could presume to declare the child illegitimate.

a Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.

he arrived in the nation's highest office without ever having won a majority vote

It's legal because it's not illegal.

oust a legitimate government in alliance with its rebels could be justified.

Guises swiftly proclaimed their niece to be "queen of England, Scotland and Ireland," challenging Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism.