Legitimate Quotes

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.