Legitimate Quotes

463 Legitimate quotes by 394 unique authors

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external… — William Godwin
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to… — Thomas Jefferson
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it… — Ken Wilber
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;… — Jacques Monod
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that… — Karl Pearson
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy… — Katharine Graham
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches… — John Stuart Mill
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man… — Henry Ward Beecher
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of… — Albert Einstein
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. — Ronald Reagan
When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism. — Ostad Elahi
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage… — Anthony Kennedy
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,… — Astley Cooper
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to… — Walter E. Williams
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain
They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with… — Vladimir Putin

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