Legitimacy Quotes

Legitimacy Quote of the day

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

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

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

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

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

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

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

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

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

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

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

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

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

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

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to have a corresponding behavioural impact.

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

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

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

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

Donald Trump feels like he doesn't get the credit for being a legitimate president. He should have therapy over that legitimacy thing.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

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

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

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