Legitimacy Quotes

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

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

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.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

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

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

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

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

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

At every step Donald Trump has been - his legitimacy has been questioned.

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

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.

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.

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.

[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.