Quotes about Defiance

SMRT:   Oho-ho! Otkud vi u sektoru? Ã… to se zadržavate, Apolone Febe, tu? Zar opet omalovažavate ingerencije donjih službi? Nije li dovoljan presedan bilo Admetovo izuze?e, odjel sudbine grubo izmanipuliran? Zar se sada, je li, okre?e vaÃ…¡a oružana sila i u obranu predmetne žene koja je sama odlu?ila provesti zna?ajne izmjene u planu umiranja supruga?

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

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

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

Terrorism should be struck down with an iron hand.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance