 | Thucydides - Greece - 1822 - 576 pages
...know' ing, that in human disputation justice is then only agreed on, ' when the necessity is equal. Whereas they that have odds of ' power, exact as much...weak yield to such ' conditions as they can get.' e you, for as much as you shall else give an example unto others ' of the greatest revenge that can... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1829 - 584 pages
...airorptirfTCtt. With respect to the next words, Svvara Si ui vpovxovny Trpaaaovai, KM ol aa^ivi<e \,v[\tafmvmv, there is much vigour in the version of Hobbes, though...judicio, cum neutra pars potentior neutra, jura vi perrumpere valeat, sed utraque ab utraque cogi possit, ut jure agat." With respect to the sentiment,... | |
 | Thucydides - 1830 - 496 pages
...we knowing, that in human disputation justice is then only agreed on, when the necessity is equal. Whereas they that have odds of power, exact as much...the weak yield to such conditions as they can get. XC. Mel.1 Well then, (seeing you put the point of profit in the place of that of justice,) we hold... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1843 - 530 pages
...we knowing, that in human disputation justice is then only agreed on when the necessity is equal ' ; whereas they that have odds of power exact as much...the weak yield to such conditions as they can get." 90. Mel. " Well then, (seeing you put the point of profit in the place of justice), we hold it profitable... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1843 - 510 pages
...we knowing, that in human disputation justice is then only agreed on when the necessity is equal ' ; whereas they that have odds of power exact as much...the weak yield to such conditions as they can get." 90. Mel. " Well then, (seeing you put the point of profit in the place of justice), we hold it profitable... | |
 | John W. Coffey - Philosophy - 1977 - 226 pages
...advised the Melians, that in politics "justice is then only agreed on when the necessity is equal; whereas they that have odds of power exact as much...the weak yield to such conditions as they can get." "* Thrasymachos and Thucydides' Athenians were not reputed for an excessive concern about the rights... | |
 | David Mayers - History - 1990 - 416 pages
...would also accept the severe truth of Thucydides's Athenian at Melos that in international affairs, "they that have odds of power exact as much as they...and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get."33 And yet, even while he has warned against extravagent forms of internationalism that promise... | |
 | Thucydides - History - 1989 - 644 pages
...and we knowing that in human disputation justice is then only agreed on when the necessity is equal; whereas they that have odds of power exact as much...the weak yield to such conditions as they can get." 90. Mel. "Well then (seeing you put the point of profit in the place of justice), we hold it profitable... | |
 | James Mayall - Law - 1990 - 188 pages
...Athenian generals underline the tragic consequences of the realist vision, namely that 'they that have the odds of power exact as much as they can, and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get'.3 However, it is Hobbes, writing in the defence of the absolutist state, whose explanation of... | |
 | Sara Ruddick - Social Science - 1995 - 324 pages
...people and nations will, if they can, dominate and exploit those who are weaker. In Thucydides' words, "They that have odds of power exact as much as they...and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get.''15 The weaker are not less domineering than the strong but only people who have not yet gathered... | |
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... they that have odds of power exact as much as they can, and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get. 
