Advantage

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

    If what you mean by the word “matter” be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why.
    George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    It’s them as take advantage that get advantage i’ this world.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger.
    —Thrasymachus 5th century B.C., Greek philosopher. The Presocratics, p. 259, ed. Philip Wheelwright, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. (1960)