Makes Right Quotes

15 quotes by 12 authors

• The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every… — John Peter Altgeld
• Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim,… — Abraham Lincoln
• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.… — Adin Ballou
• Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of… — Seneca the Younger
• I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself. I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and… — Carl Panzram
• We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally… — Walt Whitman
• We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. — Anna Quindlen
• Might does not make right! Right makes right! — T.H. White
• When we feel alone,we think more,sometimes it's better because we are thinking what's wrong and right,so we can makes right later. — Mariane Corbito
• Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and… — Alicia F Lieberman

Who Wrote These Makes Right Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 15 Makes Right Quotes as follows:

• 2 Makes Right Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Makes Right Quote by T.H. White
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Mariane Corbito
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Alicia F Lieberman
• 1 Makes Right Quote by John Peter Altgeld
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Abraham Lincoln
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Adin Ballou
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Carl Panzram
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Makes Right Quote by Anna Quindlen