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Quotes About Defiance

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
~ George Orwell
This is a country of strong beliefs. Just because some two people say something, people don't bow down.
~ Amit Shah
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
~ Saddam Hussein
I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.
~ N. K. Jemisin
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
~ George Wallace
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
~ John Hay
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
~ William Hazlitt
Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
~ William Billings
I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster - what the hell?
~ Ann Widdecombe
You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
~ Philip K. Dick
To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
~ Marilyn Manson
There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.
~ Paul Newman
The terrorists didn't think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of what they did to us. We defy them by not letting their crimes go unanswered.
~ Nadia Murad
They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.
~ Andrew Breitbart
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
~ Edward Abbey
I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.
~ John M. Corse
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.
~ George W. Bush
If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.
~ Yasser Arafat
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
And if we burn, you burn with us.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Oppression is opposition.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita