Illegitimate Quotes
70 Illegitimate quotes by 52 unique authors
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As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
— Noam Chomsky
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Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination…
— Noam Chomsky
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of…
— J. William Fulbright
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out…
— Mae West
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I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to cry. It was…
— Robert Pattinson
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The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.
— Tom Anderson
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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass…
— Mark Twain
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and…
— Benjamin Carson
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The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.
— H. L. Mencken
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I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.
— Duncan Jones
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Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow…
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,…
— James Madison
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever…
— Salman Rushdie
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There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
— Rick Warren
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I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge…
— Noam Chomsky
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I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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