Might Is Right Quotes

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animal, Men, Principles

"Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

Plato

Wisdom, Justice, Might

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If might is right, then the world will tear itself apart. We must strive to create a world in which right is might.

Koichi Tohei

Tears, World, Might

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Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.

Sara Shepard

Liars, Littles, Might

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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

Charles Barkley

Basketball, Believe, Guy

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Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

Robert Nozick

Trying, Opponents, Might

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The world [is] now seeing might is right.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Usa, Iraq, World

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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear, People, Basic Human Rights

Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

Adam Carolla

Practice, People, Paper

"‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.

Katharine Hepburn

Advice, Might, Hell

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Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.

Richard D. Ryder

Strong, Clever, Philosophical

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Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker.

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

Running, Reality, Thinking

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War rages on the teeming earth;
The hot and sanguinary fight
Begins with each new creature's birth:
A dreadful war where might is right;
Where still the strongest slay and win,
Where weakness is the only sin.

Mathilde Blind

War, Fighting, Winning

Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.9, The Floating Press

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Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. 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.

T. H. White

Love Is, Mind, Bait

T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.45, Penguin

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If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

Albert Oehlen

Beautiful, Might, Wow

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Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fear, Race, People

Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.95, Vintage

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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

Sri Aurobindo

Dog, Cat, Men

"Enemies, A Love Story". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 257, 1972.

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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Crush, Men, Iron

Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

Ray Dolby

Persistence, Might, Firsts

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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animal, Men, Compassion

"Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Sri Aurobindo

Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right.

Clive James

Giving, First Impression, Might

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What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stupid, Believe, Doubt

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In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.

Marcus Luttrell

Mom, Couple, Military

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Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

Anton Szandor LaVey

Philosophy, Darkness, Fiction

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