Quotes About Legitimacy

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.

We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

I feel like truth resonates, and you can taste when something is synthetic.

Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.

Il faut bien comprendre qu'il ne s'agit point, dans notre pensée, de déclarer illégitime en elle-même une connaissance quelconque, même inférieure ; ce qui est illégitime, c'est seulement l'abus qui se produit lorsque des choses de ce genre absorbent toute l'activité humaine, ainsi que nous le voyons actuellement.

La razón de ser esencial de la guerra, es hacer cesar un desorden y restablecer un orden. Es la unificación de la multiplicidad, con los medios que pertenecen al mundo de la propia multiplicidad. Es únicamente en este aspecto como la guerra puede considerarse legítima.

Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with.

El anarquismo es la creencia de que nadie está legitimado para gobernar. Todas las filosofías políticas, desde el derecho divino de los reyes hasta el contrato social de Rousseau, intentan justificar la autoridad. Los anarquistas creen que todas esas teorías fallan, y que por tanto ninguna forma de autoridad es legítima.

He is now king of Scotland in all but legitimacy!

El anarquismo es la creencia de que nadie está legitimado para gobernar.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Había una guerra, pero, como siempre, la dirigencia colombiana aceptaba como legítima toda violencia que se ejerciera desde el poder y condenaba como criminal toda violencia que se opusiera a las autoridades, incluso en legítima defensa, aunque la actuación de las autoridades fuera evidentemente injusta.

La ciencia declaró ilegítimo e insubsistente todo el saber que la tradición nos había legado sobre nuestro cuerpo, la confinó al territorio de la superstición, y se erigió en la única propietaria de un saber válido sobre la salid y la enfermedad, sobre la vida y la muerte.