“Strepsiades: Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.”

tr. in Lippmann 1929, p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA1 and 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA4
Clouds, line 828
Clouds (423 BC)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Strepsiades: Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus." by Aristophanés?
Aristophanés photo
Aristophanés 56
Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BC

Related quotes

Aristophanés photo

“Strepsiades: ‘Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.”

tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, p. 350 http://books.google.com/books?id=9vpxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Tis+the+Whirlwind%2C+that+has+driven+out+Jupiter+and+is+King+now%22
Clouds (423 BC)

Maximilien Robespierre photo

“You have driven out the kings: but have you driven out the vices that their funest domination has bred within you?”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

Misc Quotes

Robin Lane Fox photo

“The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronage to Greece's most distinguished artists.”

Robin Lane Fox (1946) Historian, educator, writer, gardener

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.48

Noam Chomsky photo

“The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Interview by Harry Kreisler, March 22, 2002 http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con4.html.
Quotes 2000s, 2002
Context: Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali photo

“Desire makes slaves out of kings, and patience makes kings out of slaves.”

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic

al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/

Ursula K. Le Guin photo
John Selden photo

“Never king dropped out of the clouds.”

John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law

Power.
Table Talk (1689)

Stanley Baldwin photo

“Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out.”

Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator — let them look out.
Speech at Westminster Hall (4 July 1935); published in This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses (1935), p. 4
1935

Neil Young photo

“The king is gone
But he's not forgotten.
This is the story
Of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out
Than it is to rust.
The king is gone
But he's not forgotten.”

Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter

Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)

Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories

Related topics