Top 1200 Legitimate Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

We must each walk through life on our own, but we don't have to do it alone. God wants a powerful people. He gives His power to those who are faithful. We have a sacred obligation to seek after the power of God and then to use that power as He directs. And when we have the power of God with us, nothing is impossible.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much value the position of counter power. I think this is where ethics should be, in front of power as I said in Radical Reform. The power of counter-power is very important.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

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

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

It's hard to form actual legitimate relationships.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations.

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition. You shouldn't just compile power and hold onto power for power's sake.

Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

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

It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

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

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

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

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it's not a good reason to leave the E.U.