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

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy. — John C. Maxwell

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy. — Henry Kissinger

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

I realized that I'd destroyed my legitimacy with myself, and maybe that was worse than my public legitimacy being destroyed. — Sierra Simone

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

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. — Golda Meir

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

Page 25 "But if we accept the legitimacy of the subject nevertheless, then a new and contentious series of questions at once opens up. — Alain De Botton

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy? — Neil Cavuto

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

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

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

The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission. — Malcolm Gladwell

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion. — Gustavo De Greiff

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. — Todd Akin

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

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away. — Willis Harman

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. — Ben Shapiro

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem. — Mo Ibrahim

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims. — Mia Bloom

The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary. — Steven Redhead

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. — Barack Obama

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. — Michael Ignatieff

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy. — Pankaj Mishra

A people's legitimacy is derived from its artifacts. Even a relationship isn't a relationship unless it's left behind its trash. — Joshua Cohen

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

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts. — Jed S. Rakoff

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

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

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

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate. — Menachem Begin

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

The legitimacy of your desires to exist is paramount to manifesting your desires within your reality. — Steven Redhead

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

Years of crisis have culminated in a Europe that has lost legitimacy with its own citizens and credibility with the rest of the world. — Yanis Varoufakis

Writing gives legitimacy to daydreams! — Tyan Wyss

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. — Samuel Alito

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

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams

I don't think I'm in the position to bestow legitimacy on anyone. — A. J. Jacobs

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. — Martin L. Gross

Nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy — Dick Morris

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world. — Ian Bremmer

Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing. — Henry Kissinger

The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy. — Eugene H. Peterson

And when the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.6 — Malcolm Gladwell

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

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei

When the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash. — Malcolm Gladwell

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. — Todd Gitlin

Whatever you acknowledgement gains the legitimacy to exist within your world. — Steven Redhead