Top Defiance Quotes

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word "No". Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a...

Defiance Definition

(n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

(n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.

(n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.

Let no man think that the fire of the Targaryens did not burn in his veins.

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that o...

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of d...

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that o...

To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn...

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of thei...

Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.

People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.

In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise!

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too...

A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the poi...

Scrimgeour: It's time you learned some respect! Harry: It's time you earned it.