Quotes About Defiance

Jo dimaag ki dahi banaaye, uski lassi kardo, aur chill maro. (If someone makes curd of your brain then churn them to buttermilk and chill).

Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.

We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.

Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict

Resurrect the dreams that you allowed to be killed by those who never dare to dream

You cannot break me.

If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.

The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

We've been watching your kind, noting it all down, putting it in our order pads while you snort in your trough. It may be fragmented, it may not be prettified, it may not be in the Grand Tradition, but let me tell you--it's ours and we're ready to publish!

But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Before he could finish the phrase, red-robed Speaker of the House John Robinson cried, "Treason! Treason," as other burgesses took up the cry. But Henry stared the Speaker in the eye and finished his sentence: "...may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!

against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail. General

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

One of the ironies, as some have observed, is that the secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of a religion – including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake – social, educational, and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social media campaigns.