Why then do you wait? In none of your maxims is there anything that pleases me—and may there never be! Similarly to you as well my views must be displeasing. And yet, how could I have won a nobler glory than by giving burial to my own brother? All here would admit that they approve, if fear did not grip their tongues. But tyranny, blest with so much else, has the power to do and say whatever it pleases.CreonYou alone out of all these Thebans see it that way.AntigoneThey do, too, but for you they hold their tongues.CreonAre you not ashamed that your beliefs differ from theirs?AntigoneNo, there is nothing shameful in respecting your own flesh and blood.CreonWas not he your brother too, who died in the opposite cause?AntigoneA brother by the same mother and the same father.CreonWhy, then, do you pay a service that is disrespectful to him?AntigoneThe dead man will not support you in that.CreonYes, he will, if you honor him equally with the wicked one.AntigoneIt was his brother, not his slave, who died.CreonBut he died ravaging this land, while he fell in its defense.AntigoneHades craves these rites, nevertheless.CreonBut the good man craves a portion not equal to the evil’s.AntigoneWho knows but that these actions are pure to those below?