સત્તા આગળ શાણપણ શું કરે?

sattā āgaḷa śāṇapaṇa śuṁ karē?

Literally: What can wisdom do before authority?
What it means: Reason and intelligence are useless when confronted by raw power.
The English proverb Shah set beside it: Might is right.

Also said as

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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