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Quotes About Defiance

If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them
~ Ernest Hemingway
He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Wipe the pap of your mother's breast off thy lips and give me a hatful of that dirt,' the man with his chin on the ground said. 'No one of us will see the sun go down this night.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do you want to keep your knee, young man?' 'No', I said. 'What?' 'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What will you do now if they come in the night? What can you do? Fight them, he said. I will fight them until I die.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Good-by,'! he said to all those who were kneeling. 'Don't be said. To die is nothing. The only bad thing is to die at the hands of this canalla.
~ Ernest Hemingway
That is the way a whore talks. A whore is also a woman, but I am not a whore. You'll be one. Not through you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But
~ Ernest Hemingway
The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Because, just then, death had come and rested its head on the foot of the cot and he could smell its breath. Never believe any of that about a scythe and a skull, he told her. It can be two bicycle policemen as easily, or be a bird. Or it can have a wide snout like a hyena. It had moved up on him now, but it had no shape any more. It simply occupied space. Tell it to go away. It did not go away but moved a little closer. You've got a hell of a breath, he told it. You stinking bastard.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die." But
~ Ernest Hemingway
Then he raised his hand as he faced the bull and commanded him to go down with the death that he had placed inside him. Bitter lines around the mouth are the first sign of defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the other fishermen heard me talk aloud, they would probably think I'm mad. But since I'm not, I really do not care
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'll kill him though, he said. In all his greatness and his glory. Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'll kick you in the face!
~ Ernest Hemingway
Influenced by the events surrounding him, Bill Wilson began and ended his portrayal of A.A.'s Twelve Steps as "a way of life" by stressing the continuing necessity of the total deflation of even a raised "bottom" and the persistence in even the "recovering alcoholic" of childishness, immature grandiosity, and infantile defiance.
~ Ernest Kurtz
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara