Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made...

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

I promised I will always protect you. You’ve been wounded badly because I’ve failed to keep that promise.[…]But I won´t fail you in this, Rachel. no matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done....

In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnaminityIn Peace: Good Will.

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.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

This isn’t going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they’re small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his...

Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances

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...

Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance.

When you don’t fight your adversary, you become the coward in the sight of animalistic breeds, but they forget that your real strength stays in the whisper of your voice.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my...

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

I bow to no beast.

At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history...

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, ‘So, the truant has come back again!’ (“Absolute Evil”)

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

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

I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

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...

Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.

Scrimgeour: “It’s time you learned some respect!” Harry: “It’s time you earned it.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

and I’ll swear it again; no matter what you do, you will never conquer me.

He seemed to be unrepentant, and there was no remorse or even sometimes there was a hint of defiance. Sometimes, he wasn’t very coherent.

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn’t follow me.

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.

performance of great defiance and passion.

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There’s that voice of your mom and dad and aunt and big sister and uncle and annoying cousin in your ear...

With Iranian leaders increasing threats and defiance, a lot is resting on a meeting Tuesday in Moscow with the six major world powers to try to stop Iran from continuing its nuclear program. The U.N....

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.

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.

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

An Atheist is a person who questions every kind of authority, and this is the thing that is important. Because if we can, without blinking an eye, question the ultimate authority, god – who must...

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand...

…wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit…

What is it like to be so free – so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

So if you care to find me/Look to the western sky/As someone told me lately/Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/And if I’m flying solo/At least I’m flying free/Tell those who’d ground me/Take a message back...

If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

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...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable...

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...

open hostility and defiance.

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...

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did...

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...

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say ‘no’.

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last...