Quotes About Defiance

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God

Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

When something is impossible, I do it anyway.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.

Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.

Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

We will not apologise for our way of life.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

Clarence Darrow," the New York Times proclaimed in its lead story, "bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and a court room filled with believers of the literal word of the Bible and with a hunch of his shoulders and a thumb in his suspenders defied every belief they hold sacred.