Quotes about Defiance

The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."