Aesop Quotes

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

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.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

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

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

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 one without a sword gets humiliated.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has made nothing equal; her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

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

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

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

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

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.