might is right BrE
might makes right AmE

We are allowing the law of might is right to prevail.

Might is right, and that is all there is to it.

What the child learns is that might is right.

A society that has for too long been raised on 'might is right'.

Might is right, and justice there is none.

Might is right as they say.

Property of all kinds is the exception, "might is right" is the norm.

"He has to convince the American public that in this case, in the case of Iraq, might is right," she said.

'I've never claimed that might is right, but it's always very comforting to have it.'

Those who believe that might is right must always be mighty, and Faber was sufficiently self-aware to know the implications of his own ethics.

To such an extent has this become the case that we can observe something like a reversion to 'might is right' on an international scale.

Might is right, the global economy will be restored, America is exceptional, homely people deserve political disenfranchisement, and so on.

That Christmas, she was Barbara Tracy in Might is Right.

"It's a little too much like 'Might is Right'.

Might is Right!

As with Boiorix, he thinks might is right, and they should simply keep on going south without worrying about whether Rome agrees or not.

'You see might is right upon the waters,' he explained, with a smile which broke his whole face up into crinkles. '

This latest journal was anti-government, anti-religion and heavily promoted the philosophy of 'might is right'.

We are back in the jungle and our way of life is dictated by the jungle law of "Might is Right".

Yet in Africa, we apparently prefer to leave almost everything in a semi-chaotic state in line with the concept of 'might is right'.

I had learned something that night from that very raccoon bossing Jessie C. James: to animals, might is right.

The Rumsfeldian idea - if idea is not too dignified a word - is that American might is right.

"In resorting to unilateral action," he declared, "the United States is setting itself above the law and resorting to the principle of might is right."

Of the destruction of the Ayodhya mosque, he said: "It seems to be a reintroduction of might is right."

"Might is right," said Maher Aamir, the scientist's nephew.

Might makes right; that was always your way and his.

During this age might makes right, and bad men use lies to be thought good.

If might makes right, then Rome still rules the world.

As is common in the genre, it seems that might makes right.

Do we just assume that might makes right and anything goes?"

"It sends the wrong message to children and to people - that might makes right."

Or have we learned nothing except might makes right?

This is a world where might makes right, and violence often feels misplaced.

Believes that might makes right and peace can only be preserved through warfare.

This elevates "might makes right" to a contract made at the beginning of the universe.

Then we can all go back to dog-eats-dog self-serving world of might makes right.

"Might makes right" has been described as the credo of totalitarian regimes.

Might makes right only until greater might comes along."

I asked him if this is the logical progression to "might makes right," and he nodded enthusiastically.

One way people resolve conflicts is through the "might makes right" approach of the schoolyard bully.

You're here and around here, might makes right.

Prisoners often maintain a "might makes right" philosophy.

Might makes right is their mentality, compared to the individual morals guiding pixies' decisions.

"And they think that might makes right.

Or will the 21st century begin by stepping back into the 19th-century consciousness where "might makes right"?

Torture, pleasure, pain, high technology, might makes right.

They believed that, in the short run, might makes right, and they didn't care what they put the country through.

In countries where might makes right, demonstrating the proper administration of justice can be an unbeatable nation-building tool.

Without it, no market economy but a jungle economy - dog eat dog, might makes right, every man for himself.

In other words, might makes right.