Quotes about Defiance
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
— Victor Hugo
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
— Frederick Douglass
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
— Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
— Albert Camus
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
— Ronald Reagan
The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it
— Soren Kierkegaard
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
— George Eliot
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
— Maya Angelou
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
— Alice Hoffman
You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance
— Alice Hoffman
You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
— Alice Walker
She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.
— Alice Walker