"Stranger," he grumbled back from his brutal heart,
"you must be a fool, stranger, or come from nowhere,
telling me to fear the gods or avoid their wrath!
We Cyclops never blink at Zeus and Zeus’s shield
of storm and thunder, or any other blessed god –
we’ve got more force by far."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 9, lines 306-311. When Odysseus suggests to Polyphemus that mistreating strangers and guests will incur the wrath of Zeus, the Cyclops is unimpressed. Branding the Greek hero a fool, he says that the Cyclops don’t fear the gods and are stronger than them.