Antigone

In Thebes, King Creon was in control and he proclaimed that none of those who had fought against the city should be given burial. Eteocles should be honored with every rite that the noblest received at death, but Polyneices should be left for beasts  and birds to tear and devour...

To bury the dead was a most sacred duty, not only to bury one's own, but any stranger one might come upon. But this duty, Creon's proclamation said, was changed in the cause of Polyneices to a crime. He who buried him would be put to death. 

Antigone and Ismene heard with horror what Creon had decided. To Ismene, shocking as it was,  overwhelming her with anguish for the pitiful dead body and the lonely, homeless soul, it seemed, nevertheless, that nothing could be done except acquiesce. She and Antigone were utterly alone. All Thebes was exulting that the man who had brought war upon them should be thus terribly  punished.

"We are women," she told her sister. "We must obey. We have no strength to defy the State."

"Choose your own part," Antigone said. "I go to bury the brother I love."

"You are not strong enough," Ismene cried. 

"Why, then when my strength fails," Antigone answered, "I will give up."

-Edith Hamilton, Mythology

King Creon:

"Remember this:

our country is our safety.

Only while she voyages true on course

can we establish friendships, truer than blood itself.

Such are my standards. They make our city great."

(Antigone, II. 231-235)' (PT, p.19)

Antigone:

"It wasn't Zeus, not in the least,

who made this proclamation--not to me.

Nor did that Justice, dwelling with the goods

beneath the earth, ordain such laws for men.

Nor did I think your edict has such force

that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods,

their great unwritten, unshakeable traditions."

(II. 499-505)' (PT, pp. 19-20)