Legitimacy Quotes

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

— Menachem Begin

“I don't think I'm in the position to bestow legitimacy on anyone.”

— A.J. Jacobs

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

— Fareed Zakaria

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

— Chuck Hagel

The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel.

— Ruth Wisse

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

— Martin L Gross

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

— John C. Maxwell

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

— Gustavo de Greiff

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign…

— Benjamin Tucker

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and…

— Dick Morris

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

— Kofi Annan

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

— David Cameron

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

— William A. Dembski

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

— Taslima Nasrin

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or…

— Albert Einstein

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray…

— Kim Campbell

By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws…

— John O. Brennan

I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy…

— Michael Oren

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the…

— Nicos Poulantzas

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that…

— Julius Evola

Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of…

— John Schaar

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote.…

— Naomi Wolf

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

Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the…

— Dennis Kucinich

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…

— Thomas Piketty

I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have…

— Rahm Emanuel

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

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

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

Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that…

— Sarah MacLean

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

— Willis Harman

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The most legitimate experience to be shared is the personal experience”

— Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

— Paul Krugman

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

— Alva Myrdal

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

— W. C. Fields

At every step Donald Trump has been - his legitimacy has been questioned.

— Jonathan Karl

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

— Mahatma Gandhi