• Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

    Hans Morgenthau: Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
    Hans Joachim Morgenthau, Kenneth W. Thompson (1977). “A Tribute to Hans Morgenthau: truth and tragedy : with an intellectual autobiography by Hans J. Morgenthau”, New Republic Books