With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
You have the wookie character, which is one of the biggest aliens in 'Defiance.' These guys are just walking about with these… — Tony Curran Copy Share Image
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
