#legitimate

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#does #due #force #legitimate #obedience

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ↗

— Carl Jung

#legitimate #neurosis #substitute #suffering

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#america #any #anything #between #called

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan people #ballot #choose #country #difference

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#film #genre #horror #i #i see

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#alone #defence #dynasty #ever #freedom

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

— Karl Kraus

#catching #feeling #idea #legitimate #oneself

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#democracy #incompatible #islam #legitimate #majority

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world. ↗

— Gennaro Angiulo

#i #legitimate #money #world

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#been #came #carter #could #crisis