Defiance Quotes

160 Defiance quotes by 137 unique authors

America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of… — Barack Obama
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory… — Richard M. Weaver
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more… — Emma Goldman
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. — Max Lucado
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J I Packer
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least… — Franz Marc
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. — Howard Zinn
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being… — Ashwin Sanghi
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the… — Ayn Rand
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not… — Denis Kearney
Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong… — Matt Smith
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of… — Margaret Sanger
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by… — Siegfried Sassoon
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend… — Robert W. Firestone
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself… — Emile M. Cioran
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance… — Robert Kennedy
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, --… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of… — Lord Chesterfield
The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too… — Stephanie Leonidas
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed… — Ernest Becker
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked… — Martin Niemoller

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