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Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.
John C. Maxwell
Express authenticity. Openness fosters credibility.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
Barbara Tuchman
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The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect [Donald] Trump who won in an electoral landslide.
John Lewis
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Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.
Taslima Nasrin
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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.
Eric Hoffer
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Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.
Gustavo de Greiff
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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.
Richard A. Falk
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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.
Robert Higgs
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Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.
Willis Harman
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The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
David Brooks
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The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
Anthony Zinni
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The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel.
Ruth Wisse
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The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.
Ayman Nour
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.
David Cameron
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At every step Donald Trump has been - his legitimacy has been questioned.
Jonathan Karl
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Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.
Chuck Hagel
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The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.
Paul Krugman
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I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that’s sending its [personal] money and its children abroad because they have no faith in the future of their own regime.
Larry Diamond
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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.
Albert Einstein
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A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.
Kofi Annan
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[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.
George Stephanopoulos