might makes right

谚语

英文释义

谚语
  1. What is right or wrong is determined by power and strength; power justifies itself.

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词源

Inherited from Middle English might is right, first attested in the 14th century. The concept is expressed by various classical authors; a similar argument is notably attributed to Thrasymachus by Plato in the Republic 340a (in Paul Shorey’s translation, “the advantage of the stronger is just”).
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