might makes/is right
idiom
—used to say that people who have power are able to do what they want because no one can stop them
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The inegalitarian assertion that vulnerable people have less claim to society’s protection amounts to the tyrannical idea that might makes right.
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Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
In Blatt’s slippery moral universe, might makes right—because the mighty are usually the ones who can offer him the most cash or inflict the most pain when crossed.
—Amanda Chicago Lewis, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
In Blatt’s slippery moral universe, might makes right—because the mighty are usually the ones who can offer him the most cash or inflict the most pain when crossed.
—Amanda Chicago Lewis, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
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