Quotes About Defiance

Maddie: Now it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Im sick of making bloody history.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?