antigone

“ My nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guardsbut I am a queen! ”

“ I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature. ”

“ Isn't a man's right to burial decreed by divine justice? I don't consider your pronouncements so important that they can just overrule the unwritten laws of heaven. ”

“ Like father, like daughter, passionate, wild... she hasn't learned to bend before adversity. ”

“ Not many days and your house will be full of men and women weeping, and curses will be hurled at you from far cities grieving for sons unburied, left to rot before the walls of Thebes. ”

“ A State for one man is no State at all. ”

“ I intend to give my brother burial. I'll be glad to die in the attempt. If it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands. ”

“ She has much to learn. The inflexible heart breaks first, the toughest iron cracks first, and the wildest horses bend their necks and pull at the smallest curb. ”

“ Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death. ”

“ Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last. ”