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In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. -- Winston Churchill
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel. -- Edward Abbey
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. -- Bernard Bailyn
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. -- Norman Mailer
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. -- Walt Whitman
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. -- Will Durst
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. -- Hannah Arendt
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas Jefferson
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. -- Ron Fournier
Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had. -- Condoleezza Rice
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. -- Condoleezza Rice
There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well. -- Tony Curran
Defiance through compliance. -- Jasper Fforde
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. -- Ayn Rand
The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day. -- Stephanie Leonidas
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. -- Winston Churchill
The stunt team were great on 'Defiance.' They were there, every day. -- Stephanie Leonidas
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! -- Ellen Hopkins
It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them. -- Kaniehtiio Horn
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine. -- Stephanie Leonidas
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. -- Timothy B. Tyson
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light. -- Cole Porter
Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. -- Rick Kaplan
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance. -- Steven Strogatz
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance. -- Pankaj Mishra
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. -- Oliver Goldsmith
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. -- J. K. Rowling
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. -- Noam Chomsky
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. -- Alice Childress
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. -- Nancy Gibbs
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. -- Alice Walker
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. -- Siegfried Sassoon
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. -- Dick Cheney
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. -- Charlotte Rampling
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. -- Franz Marc
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. -- Denis Kearney
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans. -- Gary L. Francione
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it. -- Iyanla Vanzant
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time. -- Samuel Lover
If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve -- William Tecumseh Sherman
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. -- Sheila Rowbotham
I write out of defiance. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Mutual defiance made them alike. -- Harper Lee
Creativity is an act of defiance. -- Twyla Tharp
PE is the sound of naked defiance. -- Vernon Reid
Good work is always done in defiance of management. -- Bob Woodward
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. -- Andre Gide
Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief. -- David Mura
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.... -- Mark Rowlands
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance. -- Fay Weldon
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job -- Seamus Heaney
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. -- George Eliot
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. -- Julien Benda
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense. -- Rene Magritte
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. -- Kate DiCamillo
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. -- Howard Zinn
In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! -- Mamur Mustapha
If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one. -- Ann Leckie
The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack. -- Ted Nugent
We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27 -- L.M. Montgomery
Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought. -- Natalie
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. -- Noam Chomsky
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. -- Jamaica Kincaid
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. -- Meryl Streep
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. -- Gerry Lindgren
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. -- Max Lucado
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. -- Emma Goldman
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on. -- Akbar Ganji
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world. -- Stanley Crawford
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. -- J. I. Packer
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law. -- Anthony Crosland
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control. -- Millard Fillmore
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils -- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil") -- Julian Hawthorne
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. -- Anne Rice
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life. -- Kent Nerburn
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster? -- Barry Lyga
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. -- Kevin Hearne
A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes"¦ to speak and act in defiance of convention. -- Margaret Sanger
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. -- Ernest Becker
But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence. -- William Cecil Dampier
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. -- George R. R. Martin
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. -- Pat Conroy
Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. -- John F. Kennedy
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day. -- Robert Jordan
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better. -- Terry Pratchett
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn. -- John Cusack
Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool. -- Matt Smith
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. -- Terry Pratchett
Youth is insolent; it is its right "? its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence"¦ -- Joseph Conrad
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. -- H. H. Asquith
Our faith gathers and slings together all the best and most altruistic principles into one set, utterly perfect in measure, and utterly potent in it's defiance to the wickedness of this world. -- Justin Steckbauer
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
I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected. -- Jeremy Paxman
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. -- Howard Zinn
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Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ... -- Mina Loy
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens. -- Anthony Trollope
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough. -- Edward Abbey
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world. -- Eric Hoffer
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. -- Kendrick Meek
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson
Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others. -- Stanley Milgram
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance. -- William Butler Yeats

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