“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”

“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.”

“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

“It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath”

“[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.”

“ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.”

“A great ox stands on my tongue.”