If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one. — Ann Leckie 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
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance… — Bertrand de Jouvenel 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 am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief,… — Benjamin Netanyahu 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
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 New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. — Winston Churchill 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
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
“Some might think you suicidal." "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.” — Charlaine Harris 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
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day. — Stephanie Leonidas Copy Share Image
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image