“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
“In the land of the unarmed, the man with a rock was king.”
Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 25
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Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince
Variant: There can be no proper relation between one who is armed and one who is not. Nor it is reasonable to expect that one who is armed will voluntarily obey one who is not.
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 14; translated by W. K. Marriot
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Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
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