#legitimate

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#function #government #in other words #institutions #legitimate

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#always #any #anybody #because #everything

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#action figure #doing #figure #get #i

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#elected #i #legitimately #president #think

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#enough #feeling #i #i think #legitimate

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#complexes #conduct #directs #eliminate #get

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#does #due #force #legitimate #obedience

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#govern #governed #grant #legitimate #only

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

— Billy Joel

#find #irs #least #legitimate #musicians

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