Might Makes Right Quotes

“All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

“Sur le mer, les hommes sont presque en dehors des lois; chez eux c'est le droit du plus fort, comme chez nous le droit du plus riche.”
― George Sand, Rose et Blanche ou la Comédienne et la Religieuse (les 5 Volumes)

“This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful.”
― Oksana Zabuzhko

“He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.”
― Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

“Exit strategies are for people who don't have battleplates.

I have personally exited two battleplates because of people who didn't have exit strategies.
- Admiral Emm and Kowalski”
― Howard Tayler, Delegates and Delegation

“[...] what it is now fashionable to call ‘realism’, meaning the doctrine that might is right.”
― George Orwell, Essays