137 Quotes About Defiance

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 saying "Your feet are going to get dirty and you're going to turn into a bat" so the defiance in the act of simply taking your shoes off and standing there under that moon— is astronomical. A dirty-feet-moonlit-defiance that will make you smile.

A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.

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

At least I won't die a slave," Maerad answered. Proud words, she thought, but she meant them.

Determination, the benign cousin of defiance, drove Lucy to continue enlarging her family to compensate for her lost children.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Why should I not defyDestinies strong and dear;What can man do but try?(Kirtlan translation)

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...

We are all whispering in a tin can on a string, but we are heard, so we whisper the message into the next tin can and the next string. Writing a book, just like building a library, is a sheer act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.