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“The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.”
― Might is Right
― Might is Right
“Statute books and golden rules were made to fetter slaves and fools.”
― Might is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest
― Might is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest
“The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The “law of laws” is not written in Hebrew consonants or upon tables of brass and stone, but in every man’s own heart. He who obeys any standard of right and wrong, but the one set up by his own conscience, betrays himself into the hands of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him to their millstones. And generally a man’s most dangerous enemies are his neighbors.”
― MIght Is Right
― MIght Is Right
“If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.”
― Might is Right
― Might is Right
“Friendship is necessary and ennobling; but impersonal despotism is destructive of all dignity and manly virtue.”
― Might is Right: The Authoritative Edition
― Might is Right: The Authoritative Edition
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