Best Legitimate Qoutes
463 Legitimate quotes by 394 unique authors
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
— Gloria Steinem
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Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to…
— John Marshall
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Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that…
— Arthur Wallis
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own...…
— Bashar al-Assad
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And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession…
— Marquis de Sade
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The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.…
— Tony Kushner
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It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of…
— Mary Robinson
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In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the…
— Walter Pater
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem…
— Salman Khurshid
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is…
— Kurt Weill
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It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness,…
— Leland Ryken
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Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering,
— Shaffi Mather
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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free…
— Richard Stallman
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The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of…
— Hamid Karzai
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I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think…
— John McCain
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural…
— Paddy Ashdown
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It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its…
— David Mamet
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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…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
— George Eliot
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In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including…
— Li Peng
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