Quotes about Defiance
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
— Khalil Gibran
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
— Victor Hugo
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
— Hosea 7:15
Well, everybody does that way, Huck." "Tom, it don't make no difference. I ain't everybody, and I can't stand it. It's awful to be tied up so.
— Mark Twain
God is still honoring spiritual desperadoes who crash parties and climb trees. God is still honoring those who defy protocol with their bold prayers. God is still honoring those who pray with audacity and tenacity.
— Mark Batterson
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
— Winston Churchill
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.
— John Owen
I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
— Oscar Wilde
“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
— Psalm 2:3