137 Quotes About Defiance

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

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

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

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Shaking my head, I grinned in my defiance, and the room and the whole world became soft and buzzing, lights dangerously unfocused. Our shadows intermingled, a Chagall on the pale wood floor. My thoughts sudden and intriguing, like a rainbow you see for only a second—

What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.

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

She felt rage boiling inside of her, begging to get out, begging to be set free. She succumbed to the supplications of her inner beast. She set her rage free.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.