The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“The most legitimate experience to be shared is the personal experience” — Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung Copy Share Image
The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate. — Ayman Nour Copy Share Image
I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool… — John Singleton Copy Share Image
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who… — Yisroel Dovid Weiss Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
“Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice. — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy? — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
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