Defiance Quotes

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

Defiance through compliance.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

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.

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.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.

Mutual defiance made them alike.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

PE is the sound of naked defiance.

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.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

I write out of defiance.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.