Quotes about Defiance
I will not serve"—
— Peter Kreeft
I will not serve"—
— Peter Kreeft
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
— Mary Harris Jones
You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?
— Virginia Euwer Wolff
Despair gives courage to a coward.
— Anonymous
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
— Andrew Jackson
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
— John Donne
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
— Samuel Johnson
First, instead of allowing the world's evil to prevent me from being happy—which would only give evil another victory—I have chosen to fight it to the best of my abilities.
— Dennis Prager
Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.
— John Bunyan
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
— John C. Wright