might makes right
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At the end, Galt tells his fellow ubermensches to create a new order where individual might makes right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
The alternative, Blinken warned, is a world in which might makes right, and "that would be a far more violent and unstable world for all of us."
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2021
When Marshall writes that “conquest gives a title that the courts of the conqueror cannot deny”, it is easy to wonder whether anything more is being claimed in his rulings than that might makes right.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2018
Without that, there is no long-term sustainability to moral progress, as it is just a matter of might makes right.
From Time ● Feb. 6, 2015
It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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