Sophocles Quotes
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
Sophocles. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus. Translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Harvard University Press, 1994, p. 73.
Bartolo was the most famous legal expert of his day and for many years thereafter as he died at the age of 44—the height of his career. In Italy, Spain and other nations of Europe there were statutes passed that said if there was no precedent in Roman Law, the writings of Bartolo should dictate the law.
Nine years later he was responsible for Napoleon’s election as Consul.
McReynolds vehemently dissented with the majority view in Perry v. United States that the government's action was wrong but that the plaintiff was not entitled to relief. His remarks were so vituperative that this, and other, comments, did not appear in the formal record of the court. See {616652} for an even worse private insult of FDR. McReynolds was a virulent ant-Semite and believed that all Backs were inferior to whites and Separate but Equal was fine policy for the nation and he was not sure the “equal” was necessary.
Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. The French King had just opened the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people. The King had made what some deputies thought was a very constructive and responsible speech opening the assembly. Mirabeau observed that as long as there was an absolute monarch in place, even a benign one. It was the presence of a monarch itself that was evil.
Napoleon had been a great supporter of Napoleon, but had become disillusioned.
The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
Sophocles (/ˈsɒfəkliːz/; Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, pronounced [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs]; c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won thirteen competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
