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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. -- Ron Paul
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering, -- Shaffi Mather
Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(after Quigley deduces Duane is undead, and says he must not be a legitimate human.) Duane: "Legitimate?!" Plat, shall I legitimately drop you from another cliff?! -- Ashley Cope
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can. -- Robin Morgan
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. -- Ambrose Bierce
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. -- Virginia Woolf
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. -- Carl Jung
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. -- John O. Brennan
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. -- Wendell Berry
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. -- Karl Kraus
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. -- William Gibson
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests. -- Vladimir Putin
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. -- Hans Kung
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
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights. -- Mark McKinnon
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. -- George Washington Carver
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
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. -- James Rouse
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
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. -- Pope Benedict XVI
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. -- Marquis de Sade
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. -- Eliza Farnham
In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes. -- Steve Carell
I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. -- Ismail Haniyeh
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people. -- Salman Rushdie
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't. -- Conrad Black
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. -- Kevin Mitnick
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons. -- Richard Engel
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Develop your legitimate strangeness. -- Rene Char
Money makes even bastards legitimate. -- Billy Wilder
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. -- Mario Benedetti
I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice. -- Natalie Goldberg
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. -- Pierre Corneille
Taxation is the legitimate support of government. -- Adolphe Thiers
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. -- Donald Knuth
No scheme pays as well as legitimate business. -- E. W. Howe
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate. -- Pierre Corneille
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. -- Stephen King
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse. -- Winston Smith
All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering -- Stefan Molyneux
Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate. -- Fatos Nano
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. -- Benjamin Haydon
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. -- Al Capone
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being. -- Samael Aun Weor
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. -- Joseph Joubert
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. -- Stefan Molyneux
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity -- Ron Silver
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. -- Ron Silver
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level. -- Parker J. Palmer
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists. -- Patricia Schroeder
The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government. -- Ali Meshkini
It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves. -- Barack Obama
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. -- Edward Abbey
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author. -- Paul Harding
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. -- Eugene Jarvis
That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do. -- Alden Ehrenreich
Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. -- Julie Kenner
Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers, -- Kevin Sabet
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it. -- Randy Wayne White
In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target. -- Stephen Hadley
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard. -- Dan Fogelberg
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard -- Dan Fogelberg
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate. -- Peter Lynch
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. -- Carl Jung
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. -- Lewis Mumford
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. -- Mariane Pearl
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. -- John Henninger Reagan
A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means. -- Robert Nozick
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. -- Michel Ney
It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others. -- Julia Ward Howe
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found. -- Alex Ebert
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. -- Jorge Luis Borges
If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it. -- Edward Klein
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker. -- Barbara Corcoran
However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate. -- James Randi
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. -- Eminem
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
People are willing to support and watch web series as a legitimate form of entertainment. -- Issa Rae
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. -- Thomas Jefferson
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. -- Max Weber
I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way. -- Jacques Chirac
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. -- William Henry Harrison
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. -- Matthew Shipp
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. -- Lord Acton
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. -- Harold Geneen
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector. -- Ronald Reagan
I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education. -- Susan Jacoby
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. -- John Green
On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful. -- Noam Chomsky
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets. -- Ward Churchill
If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to. -- Kesha
What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus? -- Julia Margaret Cameron
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. -- Theodore Parker
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. -- James Hunter
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government. -- Peter Singer
People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. -- Michael Parenti
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. -- John Stuart Mill
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. -- Xaviera Hollander
It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president. -- John Lewis
My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes. -- Diego Maradona
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. -- John Chamberlain
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. -- Ronald Reagan
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer". -- Byron Katie
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything. -- Carl Icahn

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