It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‚crimes against the peace‘ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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 defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.