Dialogue

 1  Gorg|           good, and that might is right, and that law is nothing
 2  Gorg|           maintains that might is right. His great motive of action
 3  Gorg|        for the maintenance of the right only. The revelation of
 4  Gorg|        nature says that ‘might is right.’ And we are always taming
 5  Gorg|    self-accusation, and Polus was right in saying that to do wrong
 6  Gorg|     suffer wrong, and Gorgias was right in saying that the rhetorician
 7  Gorg|         or another’s, you have no right to despise him or any practiser
 8  Gorg|           instances to do what is right, without reference to public
 9  Gorg|          sense or other truth and right are alone to be sought,
10  Gorg|            like those of duty and right, may be pushed to unpleasant
11  Gorg|  rebellion of the higher sense of right in man against the ordinary
12  Gorg|           is the assertion of the right of dissent, or private judgment.
13  Gorg|        not asserting any abstract right or duty of toleration, or
14  Gorg|        not affirming any abstract right of this nature: but he is
15  Gorg|         is asserting the duty and right of the one wise and true
16  Gorg|     morality of actions which are right or wrong in themselves.
17  Gorg|    slumbering ideals of truth and right, which may at any time awaken
18  Gorg|         been too apt to imagine a right and wrong apart from consequences;
19  Gorg|  obscuring our sense of truth and right. The sophistry of human
20  Gorg|           of humanity or truth or right, even an ordinary man, from
21  Gorg|          of the world—not what is right, but what is expedient.
22  Gorg|     ultimate triumph of truth and right, and declares that no one,
23  Gorg|          sufferer in the cause of right or truth is often supposed
24  Gorg|       fame: the sense of duty, of right, and trust in God will be
25  Gorg|           is our friend Callicles right in saying that you undertake
26  Gorg|         are asked?~GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon: I was saying
27  Gorg|     CHAEREPHON: Then we should be right in calling him a physician?~
28  Gorg|            GORGIAS: You are quite right, Socrates, in your apprehension
29  Gorg|       GORGIAS: You would be quite right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
30  Gorg|       have you observe, that I am right in asking this further question:
31  Gorg|         figures,’ should I not be right in asking, ‘What kind of
32  Gorg|          think that you are quite right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Then
33  Gorg|    SOCRATES: And your judgment is right, as you may ascertain in
34  Gorg|          dare say that you may be right, and I may have misunderstood
35  Gorg|           more, for there you are right; and so he whom you make
36  Gorg|             For that would not be right, Polus; but I shall be happy
37  Gorg|           silent, Polus? Am I not right?~POLUS: You are right.~SOCRATES:
38  Gorg|         not right?~POLUS: You are right.~SOCRATES: Hence we may
39  Gorg|         not.~SOCRATES: Then I was right in saying that a man may
40  Gorg|       himself therefore in strict right was the slave of Alcetas;
41  Gorg|          Perdiccas, and to him of right the kingdom belonged; Archelaus,
42  Gorg|         suspect that I was in the right.~SOCRATES: You further said
43  Gorg|      bodily vigour; and if we are right, Polus, in our previous
44  Gorg| persuasion. But if we, Polus, are right, do you see what follows,
45  Gorg|     popular and vulgar notions of right, which are not natural,
46  Gorg|          says,~‘Makes might to be right, doing violence with highest
47  Gorg|   according to the law of natural right, and that the oxen and other
48  Gorg|           than the mean? Am I not right in my recollection?~CALLICLES:
49  Gorg|           accordance with natural right, because they are superior
50  Gorg|          all, Callicles:—am I not right, my friend?~CALLICLES: You
51  Gorg|           Euripides may have been right in saying,~‘Who knows if
52  Gorg|       hunger is painful: am I not right?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
53  Gorg|       life also is evil: am I not right?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
54  Gorg|        imparted to them: Am I not right? I maintain that I am. And
55  Gorg|          consider whether you are right in throwing in my teeth
56  Gorg|           to avert them. Am I not right Callicles?~CALLICLES: Yes,
57  Gorg|  Callicles?~CALLICLES: Yes, quite right.~SOCRATES: Seeing then that
58  Gorg|       think that Polus and I were right in admitting the conclusion
59  Gorg|       there in your refusal? What right have you to despise the
60  Gorg|            SOCRATES: If they were right in saying that they make
61  Gorg|           make them good—am I not right? (Compare Protag.)~CALLICLES:
62  Gorg|        inferences:—Death, if I am right, is in the first place the