Defiance Quotes

160 Defiance quotes by 137 unique authors

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you… — Gabrielle Giffords
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,… — Howard Zinn
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves,… — Margaret Thatcher
To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded.… — Primo Levi
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against… — Barnett Newman
Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. — Rick Kaplan
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… — Hilary of Poitiers
I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a… — Jeremy Paxman
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance. — Steven Strogatz
A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . .… — Hugh Nibley
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own… — Hannah Arendt
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in… — Seneca the Younger
Good work is always done in defiance of management. — Bob Woodward
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President… — Ron Fournier
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It… — Bill Buford
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led… — Fred Edwords
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more… — Howard Zinn
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of one’s private property… — Vin Suprynowicz
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that… — John C. Wright
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this… — Kent Nerburn
Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief. — David Mura
We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist… — Joseph Stalin

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