Line #86 Quotes/MightMakesRight


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
3	->''"Weakness is a sin."''
4	-->-- '''Yuichirou Kanzaki''' and '''Supremacy Black Dragon, Aurageyser Damned''', ''Anime/CardfightVanguard''
5
6	->''"Might makes right. What a great time to be alive. The strong can claim whatever they desire as their own."''
7	-->-- '''Shin''', ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''
8
9	->''"Might makes right and might alone! Without strength, we have nothing! If I don't win, then all my effort, all I've struggled to achieve, all of it will have been pointless! I'll lose everything, just like I did before... and I absolutely refuse to go through that again!"''
10	-->-- '''Jiren''', ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''
11
12	->''"[[JustAKid Brats like you sure know how to pass the blame]]. It's no good. [[NothingPersonal I don't really hold a grudge against 'em about my eye]]. I killed 'em, just like I wanted to. And they tried to stop me. We all did our best and had to deal with the results. What's bad is when you can't put your money where your mouth is... like your dear mommy and daddy!"''
13	-->-- '''Muscular''', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''
14
15	->''"Pirates are evil!? The Marines are righteous?! Ha! These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war will always grow up with different values! Therefore, those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! Justice will prevail, you say!? Damn right it will! And that's because whoever wins this war becomes justice!"''
16	-->-- '''Doflamingo''', ''Manga/OnePiece''
17	[[/folder]]
18
19	[[folder:Comic Books]]
20	->'''Mace Windu:''' The Yinchorri believe that if they're strong enough to take something and hold on to it, it is, by rights, theirs.\
21	'''Oppo Rancisis:''' "Might makes right". A short-sighted philosophy, [[BreakTheHaughty and one that is often recanted upon meeting a more powerful adversary]].
22	-->-- ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic Jedi Council: Acts of War]]''
23
24	->''"Nancy, [[{{Revenge}} the road you're on]] ends the one in charge being the strongest one there is. And that's [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]]. And if you ask me, I think there are better ways to live than on some sort of 'ComicBook/PlanetHulk' where a furious rage monster decides everything. [[DefiedTrope Might doesn't make right, Nancy. Might just makes you better at punching.]] I know you'll make the right decision."''
25	-->-- '''Squirrel Girl''', ''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl''
26	[[/folder]]
27
28	[[folder:Fan Works]]
29	->''"You may be big, mean, and don't care about hurting people, but that ''doesn't'' give you the right to do whatever you please! Nobody has that right! We're all stuck living together in this world, and if you want to try and make it a 'dog eat dog' world then you're gonna find there's plenty of dogs around bigger and meaner than ''you'', buster! If you really care about Posey, then you're gonna stop pushing her around ''this instant'' and be a good and loyal dog for her. Otherwise I'm going to have to teach you a very ''harsh'' lesson you don't want to experience."''
30	-->-- '''Fluttershy''' to Kyoki telling him what a terrible idea that is, ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls''
31	[[/folder]]
32
33	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
34	->''There is a principle of nature\
35	That most every creature knows\
36	It's called survival of the fittest\
37	And this is how it goes:\
38	The animal that wins has got to\
39	Claw and bite and kick and punch\
40	The animal that doesn't winds up someone else's lunch!''
41	-->-- '''[[CutSong Biggering]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012''
42
43	->''"This is a world where the strong rule, and you are the strongest of all of us. Remember when we were small, Somishka? How I used to save you from those bullies? Now you must save all of us."''
44	-->-- '''Svetlana''', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon''
45
46	->''"Rule number one. He who has the power, makes the rules. Obvious."''
47	-->-- '''Manchester Black''', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite''
48	[[/folder]]
49
50	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
51	->''"Today I saw a soldier kill a man and I learnt something. In this world, we can do anything if we have guns!"''
52	-->-- '''Paul''', ''Film/BulletInTheHead''
53
54	->'''Darth Vader:''' Calrissian, take the princess and the Wookiee to my ship.\
55	'''Lando Calrissian:''' You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision.\
56	'''Darth Vader:''' [[MovingTheGoalposts I am altering the deal]]. Pray I don't alter it any further.
57	-->-- ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''
58
59	->''"We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world. Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that 'might is right'."''
60	-->-- '''King George VI''', ''Film/TheKingsSpeech''
61
62	->'''Yusuf:''' She bears no mark.\
63	'''Sinbad:''' Nonsense! All ships bear identity! It's the law of the sea!\
64	'''Yusuf:''' Law? What law is stronger than strength?
65	-->-- ''Film/SinbadTheSailor''
66
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Literature]]
70	->''"The first requirement of being a hero isn't being right. It's being strong. That's why the hero always wins."''
71	-->-- '''Araragi Koyomi''', ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}''
72
73	->(T)hey have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
74	-->-- ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''
75
76	->''"Might is the answer; I forgot the question."''
77	-->-- '''Eighinn Stossuhl''', ''Literature/{{Eclipse}}''
78
79	->There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.
80	-->-- ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''
81
82	->"Listen, then," [Thrasymachus] said; "I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger."
83	-->-- ''Literature/TheRepublic''
84
85	->''"The strong get what they deserve. So do the weak."''
86	-->-- '''Gary Gitmoe''', ''[[Literature/TomSwift Tom Swift: Mind Games]]''
87	[[/folder]]
88
89	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
90	->''"Forgive me, Khaleesi, but your ancestor Aegon the Conqueror didn't seize six of the kingdoms because they were his right. He had no right to them. He seized them because he could."''
91	-->-- '''Ser Jorah Mormont''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''
92
93	->If there are gods, they do not help, and justice belongs to the strong; but know that all things done before the naked stars are remembered.
94	-->-- '''Klingon''' proverb, ''Franchise/StarTrek''
95
96	->'''Baldur:''' [[OneTrueFaith You think you own the planet]]. What gives you the ''right?''\
97	''[Baldur charges at Lucifer, who rams a hand through his chest and out his back]''\
98	'''Lucifer:''' No one gives us the right. We take it.
99	-->-- ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E19HammerOfTheGods Hammer of the Gods]]"
100	[[/folder]]
101
102	[[folder:Music]]
103	->''The Viking promise I have made\
104	Sets fire in my bones.\
105	The world is cold, the world is hard\
106	The weak man falls and groans.\
107	I have come to rid this wretched land\
108	Of lesser men than I.\
109	For the gods above demand it.\
110	They say that they must die!''
111	-->-- '''Music/ClamaviDeProfundis''', ''Music/{{Chieftain}}'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxIPEnZpJdo Strong]]"
112
113	->''Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --\
114	Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.\
115	"Good!" cried the Baron, sitting in his hall\
116	"But iron, cold iron, is the master of them all."\
117	So he made rebellion 'gainst the King, his liege,\
118	Camped before his citadel and summoned it to siege.\
119	"Nay," said the cannoneer on the castle wall\
120	"But iron, cold iron, shall be master of you all!"\
121	Woe for the Baron and his knights so strong,\
122	When the cruel cannon-balls laid them all along\
123	He was taken prisoner, he was cast in thrall,\
124	And iron, cold iron, was the master over all.''
125	-->-- '''Creator/RudyardKipling''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2eC0dFf_w Cold Iron]]"
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
129	->Let us oppress the righteous poor;\
130	let us neither spare the widow\
131	nor revere the aged for hair grown white with time.\
132	But let our strength be our norm of righteousness;\
133	for weakness proves itself useless.
134	-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'', '''Wisdom 2:10-11''' ([[WordOfDante from the Apocrypha]])
135	[[/folder]]
136
137	[[folder:Poetry]]
138	->Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --\
139	Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.\
140	"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,\
141	"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all."
142	-->-- '''Creator/RudyardKipling''', ''Cold Iron''
143	[[/folder]]
144
145	[[folder:Theatre]]
146	->''"Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,\
147	Between whose endless jar justice resides,\
148	Should lose their names, and so should justice too."''
149	-->-- '''Ulysseus''', ''Theatre/TroilusAndCressida''
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:Video Games]]
153	->''"Ideas don't determine who's right. Power determines who's right. And I have the power... so I'm right."''
154	-->-- '''Jonathan Irons''', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare''
155
156	->''Imagine three great nations under three great queens. The first queen writes a great book of law and her rule is just. The second queen builds a high tower and her people climb it to see the stars. The third queen raises an army and conquers everything.\
157	The future belongs to one of these queens. Her rule is harshest and her people are unhappy. But she rules.\
158	This explains everything, understand? This is why the universe is the way it is, and not some other way. Existence is a game that everything plays, and some strategies are winners: the ability to exist, to shape existence, to remake it so that your descendants -- molecules or stars or people or ideas -- will flourish, and others will find no ground to grow.\
159	And as the universe ticks on towards the close, the great players will face each other. In the next round there will be three queens and all of them will have armies, and now it will be a battle of swords -- until one discovers the cannon, or the plague, or the killing word.''
160	-->-- '''Toland the Shattered''', ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'', "[[AllThereInTheManual Grimoire: The Darkness]]", explaining the logic of [[EldritchAbomination the Darkness]]
161
162	->''Of [[EvilOverlord Oryx]], that [[AdmiringTheAbomination admirable monarch]], I have only a little to say. Why? Because He is all in the action, fellow traveler, His philosophy is all on display. He has twinned himself so closely to the power He admires. He has become many-placed, many-formed, sending out emissaries of himself to ask after the truth.\
163	In each act of His power Oryx seeks to incarnate the self-sustaining, immortal suzerainty that He worships. [[EldritchAbomination The power that He uses]] to [[DemonicPossession wash his Taken clean and etch them into useful shapes]].\
164	Oryx inhabits a world where power is truth. To win is to be noble, and to be real. [[FightingAShadow When He departs from that world, out into the material universe, He is lessened]].\
165	The echoes of Oryx go forth to ask a question: [[WorthyOpponent are you the truth]]?''
166	-->-- '''Toland the Shattered''', ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'', "[[AllThereInTheManual Grimoire: Echoes of Oryx]]"
167
168	->''"Might controls everything, and without strength you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself."''
169	-->-- '''Vergil''', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''
170
171	->If you steal from another [of House] Telvanni, but still live, then clearly you deserve whatever you stole. Murdering your opponents by magic or treachery is the traditional way of settling disputes. If you win, then clearly your argument has more merit.
172	-->-- ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind''
173
174	->''"No matter what circumstances my opponent has, all I'll think is 'I see, there’s that opinion too.' Then, if I cleanly cut my opponent down, I'm in the right. The fight's over with that. On the other hand, if I fall without defeating them, then I was in the wrong. And there, my fight will end."''
175	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi''', ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder: Cosmos in the Lostbelt''
176
177	->''"I've been thinking about how we've got our own ideas about justice...and so does the Kingdom/Empire. And what's coming, it's not just a battle between us and them. It's our ideals that are fighting. Whoever wins will say they were right and the other side was wrong. And I get it. That's how it goes... But nobody's willing to talk or compromise, so we'll fight to the death to prove the other guy's wrong."''
178	-->-- '''Sylvain''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''
179
180	->''"Vae victis!"[[labelnote:Translation]]"Woe to the vanquished!"[[/labelnote]]''
181	-->-- '''Kain''', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain''
182
183	->''"Power is strength. Strength is everything!"''
184	-->-- '''Mashtooth''', ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy''
185
186	->''"Might makes right, don't you fuck with me. You know what? Fuck this war, I just want you dead."''
187	-->-- '''Senator Armstrong''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
188
189	->''"'''I have a dream!''' That one day every person in this nation will control their own destiny. A land of the truly free, dammit. A nation of ''action'', not words, ruled by ''strength'', not committee! Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think -- to act -- for himself! Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! ''Fuck American pride! Fuck the media!'' '''''FUCK ALL OF IT!''''' America is diseased. Rotten to the core. There's no saving it -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. '''''BURN IT DOWN!''''' And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive -- free to live as they see fit, they'll make America ''great again!'' ...In my new America, people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE! Not for money. Not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"''
190	-->-- '''[[spoiler:Senator Steven Armstrong]]''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
191
192	->''"Hadar... sen olmen."[[labelnote:Translation]]"Power... is everything."[[/labelnote]]''
193	-->-- '''Raven Beak''', ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
194
195	->''"In this world, the strong take while the weak quake!"''
196	-->-- '''Makk the pirate''', ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler''
197
198	->''"The only thing that can defeat power is more power. That is the one constant in this universe."''
199	-->-- '''Albert Wesker''', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles''
200
201	->''"Only power yields victory. Only strength can rule. Only fools think otherwise."''
202	-->-- '''Dong Zhuo''', ''VideoGame/TotalWarThreeKingdoms''
203
204	->''"It is not by my own power that I am resurrected. It is a greed of humanity which calls me back. And thus, by might, I rule. Might becomes the one and only justice in this world!"''
205	-->-- '''Dracula''', ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''
206	[[/folder]]
207
208	[[folder:Webcomics]]
209	->''"In [[MagicalLand Umbra]], being alive is basically a constant struggle to stay at the top of the food chain. The weak are killed by the strong and the strong get challenged, defeated, and killed by the stronger. Things weren't always like this. We Monstrums used to watch over each other and protect those who couldn't protect themselves. But when [[EvilOverlord Lord Vile]] became king, it became survival of the fittest. And when you're the son of the King of Monsters, [[HadToBeSharp you get used to living with a target on your back]]."''
210	-->-- '''Bitterbat''''s InternalMonologue, ''Webcomic/GlitterAndGuilt'', [[https://glitterandguilt.thecomicseries.com/comics/49 Chapter 2, Page 1]]
211
212	->''"It is said the greatest warrior-kings may sublime violence and forget all they learn about the sword. This is true. But the only true path to kingship lies through regicide."''
213	-->-- '''Meti's Sword Manual''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
214
215	->''"So say I. This is the'' '''''Law of Kings,''''' ''Either make it your'' '''''own''''' -- ''or'' '''''know your place.'''''
216	-->-- '''Solomon David''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
217
218	->''"If you don't want to get bossed around or mocked by the people around you... you just need to become stronger."'
219	-->-- '''Garou''', ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''
220
221	->'''Toahdfrohg Captain:''' You have ''no right'' to pass judgment on me!\
222	'''Petey:''' Per your own actions, you appear to believe might ''makes'' right.\
223	'''Toahdfrohg Captain:''' I don't like where this is going.\
224	'''Petey:''' Oh, good. I was hoping you wouldn't.
225	-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
226
227	->''"[Tessa] just uses her flashier powers as an excuse to boss us around! ''[...]'' It would be one thing if she was ''just'' the strongest, but it’s obvious, right!? She thinks she's actually more important than us!"''
228	-->-- '''Sally Fintan''', ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain''
229
230	->'''Professor Gurwara:''' [[http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-117-2/ We stand now in Brooklyn.]] [[Music/BeastieBoys This region's greatest philosophers]] once carefully observed that you must '''fight''' for your right, among other things, to party. And yet still others of your countrymen would remark that our deepest rights are inalienable, endowed by our Creator. Does this seem to pose a contradiction? Are our rights inalienable, or in fact, extremely alienable?\
231	'''Alison:''' So what are you getting at here? It's starting to sound pretty damn cynical, like you're circling around just saying "Might Makes Right."\
232	'''Gurwara:''' ...Would that be so incorrect?\
233	'''Alison:''' No! No, no, no! I reject that '''fundamentally'''. I cannot make [[AppealToForce what I did]] okay by just saying "well, I'm strong, so it's fine."\
234	'''Gurwara:''' Of course not! That is '''not''' what I said! Look around you! What does this world know of justice or freedom? It knows claw and fang. It knows want and need. It knows power. We may balance our stories on its back, but the world gave you the only authority it truly understands when it made you strong. You wish to call me a cynic because I see that the rights of the fish have always ended at the jaws of the shark? Very well. Might Makes Right is not an endorsement. It is the tired admission of an old man.
235	-->-- ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist''
236
237	->''"The value and merit of all things is defined by how far we are willing to go to obtain them, and how far we are willing to go to defend them. Morality is no different. If it is not defended, it has no value. Without 'might,' there can be no 'right.' There's no need to demonize it."''
238	-->-- '''King Law Wight''', ''Webcomic/{{Suppression}}''
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder:Web Videos]]
242	->''"[[spoiler:Armstrong]] calls for a society built on nothing but personal strength. If you are strong enough to rule the world, then you should do it. If you're strong enough to fight and defeat your boss in mortal combat, then you should have his job. If you're strong enough to carry a woman off the street and drag her into your dungeon, then that's your new wife, baby! His vision would obviously make for a terrifying world, but I suspect that [[DracoInLeatherPants a lot of people would find it at least somewhat appealing]]. A lot of people would hear this and think to themselves, 'Well, that works for me, [[OriginalPositionFallacy because I am strong]]! I am strong enough to do whatever I want if society would just get out of my way!'\
243	\
244	[[spoiler:Armstrong]] talks about purging the weak, but that's a truly insane statement. Because to 'purge the weak', you would have to purge literally everyone. The fact is, everyone is weak sometimes. Everyone has weaknesses. That's the reason we build families and communities. So that whatever your weakness is, someone with a compatible strength can cover for you, and vice-versa. In an ideal community, everyone works to their strengths and no one is destroyed by their weaknesses. But a lot of people [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex either can't or won't recognize their own weaknesses]], and so they would find [[spoiler:Armstrong]]'s worldview very appealing."''
245	-->-- '''[[https://youtu.be/-avJIDU_I1Y FatBrett]]''' on the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
246	[[/folder]]
247
248	[[folder:Western Animation]]
249	->''"Here on our planet, back in the old days, back in the ''real'' old days, it was just every man for hisself. Scrooblin' and scrat-scroblin' for the good stuff, the greenest valleys, and scrat-scroblin'. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like, 'The rest of you, y'all scrats get sand!' And ''that's'' when they made the laws, you see. Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said, 'This is fair now, this is the law.' Once they were winning, they changed the rules up."''
250	-->-- '''Jake''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''
251
252	->''"Weaponry! It's the way to get it done!\
253	Weaponry! It's effective and it's fun!\
254	If you want to make 'em fall on bended knee at your command,\
255	Bow their heads and swear that you're the leader of the land,\
256	State your wishes in a language they will understand,\
257	With weaponry! That's the plan!\
258	If power's on your shopping list,\
259	Then use the elbow and the fist!\
260	Pummel 'em until they get the gist!\
261	Just make an example of\
262	Representative sample of\
263	And most of them will not be missed!\
264	You can beat 'em up by any means,\
265	Or blow 'em all to smithereens!\
266	A favorite of this sentient machine!\
267	Never mind the fatatlities\
268	When there's municipalities,\
269	To crush a set of\
270	With the threat of\
271	Weaponry! Will inspire Dr. D,\
272	Weaponry! To have confidence in me!\
273	If I'm gonna be a conqueror [[WellDoneSonGuy and win my father's love]],\
274	I'll take it to the people with the eagle, not the dove!\
275	If there's one thing that obedience is symptomatic of,\
276	It's W-E-A-P-O-N-R-Y\
277	Weaponry! From above!"''
278	-->-- '''Norm''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
279
280	->''"Who deserves what is irrelevant. What matters is [[PunctuatedForEmphasis who. Has. Power]]."''
281	-->-- '''Grand Admiral Thrawn''', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E13FamilyReunionAndFarewell Family Reunion and Farewell]]"
282
283	->'''[[Characters/StarWarsAhsokaTano Ahsoka]]:''' I am here to bring you to justice.\
284	'''[[Characters/StarWarsDarthMaul Maul]]:''' ''Justice'' is merely the construct of the current power base.
285	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E10ThePhantomApprentice The Phantom Apprentice]]"
286	[[/folder]]
287
288	[[folder:Real Life]]
289	->''But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "[[TropeNamers Might makes right]]," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.''
290	-->-- '''Adin Ballou'''
291
292	->''Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason?\
293	For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.''
294	-->-- '''John Harington'''
295
296	->''"Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked good."''
297	-->-- '''President UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson''' to the Greek ambassador
298
299	->''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."]]''
300	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MaoZedong'''
301
302	->''"UsefulNotes/ThePope disapproves? How many divisions does he have?"''
303	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JosefStalin'''
304
305	->''You know as well as we that right, as this world goes, is only in question between equals in power; for the strong do as they will, and the weak suffer what they must.''
306	-->-- '''"The Melian Dialogue"''', Thucydides' ''History of UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar''
307
308	->''Enough might makes what is right irrelevant.''
309	-->-- Many
310
311	->''Jus est in armis.[[labelnote:Translation]]The law is in weapons.[[/labelnote]]''
312	-->-- '''Creator/{{Seneca}} the Younger'''
313
314	->''Auctoritas non veritas facit legem.[[labelnote:Translation]]Authority, not truth, makes law.[[/labelnote]]''
315	-->-- '''Thomas Hobbes''', ''Literature/{{Leviathan\|ThomasHobbes}}''
316
317	->''"A man with a gun can control a hundred without one."''
318	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin'''
319
320	->"Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognised and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice, because might has gainsaid justice, and has declared that it is she herself who is just. And thus being unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just."
321	-->--'"Pascal"'
322	[[/folder]]
323

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