The Phoenician Women Quotes

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

“Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

“Truth is simple by nature in the telling, and justice needs no cunning gloss of sophistries. It has a right measure of its own; but the argument that is unjust is sick in nature, and so needs the medicine of clever words.”
― Euripides , The Phoenician Women

“Truth’s words are simple to utter and justice needs no subtle explanations. Justice is self explanatory. Injustice, however, being a sickness, requires complicated medicines and it is this sort of thinking that I have constructed about my father’s house (words by Polyneices).”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women