John Milton 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.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.

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

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

We are equal in war but not in peace.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of the half of society over which the other half has power—from the exercises of the right of the strongest.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Oppression is the essence of power.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Power wears out those who do not have it.