Quotes About Legitimacy

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Unfortunately, lack of obedience is one of our most difficult problems in America. Many people erroneously believe that being obedient means being subservient to someone else. In reality, it indicates respect for the authority of an authority figure. Realistically speaking, you must respect authority before you can legitimately expect others to respect your authority.

Our research suggests that successful race talk must allow for the free expression of nested and impacted feelings, acknowledge their legitimacy and importance in dialogues, and be deconstructed so their meanings are made clear (Sue, 2013; Sue et al., 2010; Sue, Torino, et al., 2009).

To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Illegitimate children can be left money, but they can't inherit the peerage." "You wouldn't want it," Cameron put in. "More trouble than it's worth. And for God's sake, don't murder Hart or I'm next.

For all invented traditions, so far as possible, use history as a legitimator of action and cement of group cohesion.

Det er ikke den mest troende som får legitimitet, men den som fører en kamp som er identisk med folkets kamp.

De ce fait, s'il est raisonnable d'admettre que l'État, comme disait Reagan, peut parfois être « le problème », il est tout à fait légitime de se demander si l'absence d'État n'est pas, quelquefois, un problème plus grave encore.

Tenk så mange fornuftige reformer som har mislykkes fordi de bar stemplet til en forhatt myndighet! Og omvendt, så mange uforstandige handlinger som er blitt bejublet fordi de ble approbert av en med legitimitet fra kampmarken! Dette er en sannhet som er gyldig overalt, når et forslag blir lagt ut til avstemning, uttaler velgerne seg i mindre grad om selve saken enn om hvilken tiltro de har til han eller de som har lagt den fram.

He liked being the guy who looked legit but who fucked with the fuckers

For American officers, the starting point for retrieving professional legitimacy lay in avoiding altogether future campaigns even remotely similar to Vietnam. As

Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it's a weird Catch-22. It's like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they're like, 'There's no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.'

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.

Even when something's funny, it has to be well-written, too. So we are really aware of the craft part of pop music. We really have a respect for the genre and feel that it's valuable. It's legitimate in its own way and it has as many possibilities as any other kind of music.

There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.

As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.

I take every chance I get to teach kids that you can get money fast, but legit' money lasts.

I always say that Sheri Martell was that one thing that put Harlem Heat on the map, made us a legitimate tag team.

succession means legitimacy as well as power.

It involves the passage to the new leader of something of the authority possessed by his predecessor, the general recognition of him as rightful head of the political community.