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Quotes About Legitimate

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
~ Charles Babbage
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
~ Unknown
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
~ Xaviera Hollander
Hay cosas absurdas que tienen toda la apariencia de un legítimo razonamiento:
~ Horacio Quiroga
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
I'm real. I'm completely authentic.
~ Willie Cauley-Stein
I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what I try to do.
~ Aubrie Sellers
All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling.
~ Sam Gyimah
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.
~ Steven Pinker
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
~ Hans Kung
Jung said it well: "All our neuroses are substitutes for legitimate suffering.
~ John Bradshaw
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
~ Julie Kenner
Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
~ Benjamin Haydon
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.
~ Robert Klein
Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.
~ Jacques Rancière
Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform—should you change your mind.
~ John Irving
Droid Gotra, a lethal band of repurposed battle droids with what some considered legitimate grievances against the Empire for having been abandoned after their service during the Clone Wars.
~ John Jackson Miller
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
~ Carl Jung
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Leaders who are reluctant to engage with Scripture, or who insist that their way is the only scriptural way without discussion, or who demand obedience without reference to Scripture, are almost certainly outside the limits of legitimate authority.
~ Unknown
I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.
~ Susan Jacoby