W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

The strong were always eating the weak.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The strongest absorbs the weakest, and he has a right to do so.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

The majority in every society is always the backward. The diligent are no more than thirty percent of the society. It is a natural law that the diligent breed will exploit the backward breed as best they can, like the fish at sea, where the strong eat the weak. It is inconsequential whether the diligent are capitalists and merchants, as in the bourgeois government, or whether the diligent are the managers and supervisors, the intellectuals and the allotters as in the communist government. Ultimately, the diligent will exploit the laboring backward to the best of their ability.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

The weak are always at war with the stronger; that is the source of eternal hatreds.