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

Examples of might makes/is right in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For McCloughan, bigger is better, might is right, long arms are strong arms, etc., etc. —Matt Barrows, New York Times, 1 May 2025

The president’s apparent over-arching ethos – might is right, and mine is greatest – is now demolishing geopolitical norms at speed. —Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025

Trump believes that might makes right, that weakness deserves contempt, and that fairness is irrelevant. —Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025

In this new dispensation where might makes right, any appeal to moral considerations in the practice of American foreign policy is ridiculed as a deficiency of the weak while the amoral exercise of power is venerated as a virtue of the strong. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025

Opinions Trump’s talk of manifest destiny legitimizes a world order in which might makes right, Greg Grandin writes. —German Lopez, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025

In this new reality, might makes right and the strong prevail over the weak and the rest. —Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2024

Taking their place would be the law of the jungle, the notion that might makes right. —Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024

There are times when might makes right, but right can sometimes make might. —Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024