“Fear can force obedience, but it can never transform a heart.”

“Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.”

“The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.”

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty”

“(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my will?(ghost of)POLYXENA: I think I will not bend.IPHIGENIA: You see, it's as we've tried to tell you, Great Achilles. Women are no good to you dead.”

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”