Right makes might, The Mechanics of Virtue, aphorism 239

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Right makes might: Victims often do not return to their feet after taking a hit ... and not because of the hit.  They feel the truth, even if they do not understand it: right often does make might, and especially when injury and weakness constitute the right of the supremely dominant to intervene.  A “right,” understood from this perspective, is an opportunity for the supreme power to dominate.  When we say that right makes might, we may only be saying that the weak are mightier than the strong when in the presence of the strongest.  

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