One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords 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 broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Miss Liddell,” he’d groan, “this is all impossible! Don’t you understand that? It’s impossible!” Her expression was all seriousness, as if he’d… — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law. — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“Tell me, because I really am quite curious. What precisely did you expect to happen when my dear perfidious brother brought me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. — Ayn Rand 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
