Defiance Quote by Tony Burgess

“Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?”

— Miriam Toews

“Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy…

— Isaac Asimov

“I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek to silence,…

— Tom Althouse

“Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.”

— Deirdre Riordan Hall

“We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,bye the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none,…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“they greet those who are cast down, and those in heart, those troubled adn those filled with desire, those who are overjoyed and those…

— Joseph Bédier

“Had been grandmothers, tolerant and frank, recipients of certain dark secrets, who, by the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness, and thus…

— George Saunders

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

— Elie Wiesel

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever…

— Joanne Harris

“Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. Finding no language in which to speak…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“But there’s something irreparable as well: The crime forever compromises both love and the possibility of loving. I killed a man, and since then,…

— Kamel Daoud

“Criminals, because they’re plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they’re pure, never will.”

— Tom Robbins