Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
We are the ghosts of the singing furies .
Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
