quotes

QUOTES
“It was by this service to your dear body, Polynices, I earned the punishment which now I suffer, though all good people know it was for your honour. O but I would not have done the forbidden thing for any husband or for any son. For why? I could have had another husband and by him other sons, if one were lost; But, father and mother lost, where would I get another brother?” –Antigone (pg. 150)

“Gods of our fathers, my city, my home, rulers of Thebes! Time stays no longer. Last daughter of your royal house go I, his prisoner, because I honoured those things to which honour truly belongs.” –Antigone (pg. 151)

“Is he not my brother, and yours, whether you like it or not? I shall never desert him, never.” –Antigone (pg. 128)

“Whose was the deed, Death and the dead are witness. I love no friend whose love is only words.” – Antigone (pg. 141)

"Apollo, friends, Apollo has laid this agony upon me; not by his hand; I did it." -Oedipus (pg. 62, King Oedipus)

"Oedipus: How can that be, seeing I am their son? Messenger: No. Polybus (king of Corinth) is no kin or yours" (p. 53).
Indivdual vs. state: Ismene "i do not defy them; but i cannot act against the state. I am not strong enough."

Conscience vs. law: Antigone "he has no right to keep me from my own"