might makes right
谚语
英文释义
谚语
- 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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