defiance quotes

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

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.

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

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.

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