Hoe minder legitimiteit, hoe meer retoriek.

"The deeper the crisis of legitimacy reaches, the more pronounced the recourse to rhetorical metaphor becomes - it is not inertia that makes tradition but rather the difficulty to livng up to one's designation as the subject of history. So one contents oneself more easily with participating in the role of the subject of history: one is not the subject, but one is part of it.
Blumenberg, Hans. An Anthropological Approach to Rhetoric. p.453.

Dit beeld is m.i. de perfecte illustratie van wat het citaat van Blumenberg wil zeggen: hoe miner legitimiteit, hoe meer retoriek.