“Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Some might think you suicidal." "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.” — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.” — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“You’re so rebellious as it is.” “I am not!” Franny said with her customary defiance” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The North Korean Communists are implacably pursuing their military buildup in defiance of the international trend toward rapprochement and of the stark… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life,… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
“Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Defiance of the way things are is the only way to embrace what's coming.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught?… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
