Great Throughts Treasury
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Thrasymachus NULL
Greek Sophist, Philosopher, best known as a character in Plato's Republic
"I say that justice is nothing other than the interest of the stronger."
"Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger."
"Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger."
"Fairness is merely what the powerful want it to be."
"What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party. "
"Injustice on a sufficiently large scale is a stronger, freer, and a more masterful thing than justice, and, as I said in the beginning, it is the advantage of the stronger that is the just, while the unjust is what profits man's self and is for his advantage."