Brass balance scales hold a pile of grey pebbles in one pan and a pale feather in the other.

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Voltaire

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a cynical remark that God backs whoever has the biggest army. The speaker, quoting what 'is said', suggests that victory tends to go to the side with more force, not the more righteous one. It reads as a sardonic view of how power decides outcomes.

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