“In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.”
Book:Euripides
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“Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: Euripides
“Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes