Full Idea
Callicles: It's the weaklings who constitute the majority of the human race who make the rules.
Gist of Idea
Moral rules are made by the weak members of humanity
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.378 BCE], 483b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.65
A Reaction
An aristocrat bemoans democracy. Presumably the qualification for being a 'weakling' is shortage of money. How strong are the scions of the aristocrats?