Quotes about Defiance
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'
— Abraham Lincoln
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
— Jack Kerouac
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
— Jack Kerouac
Be strong enough to stand up again, even after haters make you drop to your knees.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.
— Tamera Alexander
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
— James A. Garfield
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
— Charles Spurgeon
Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.
— Victor Hugo
Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.
— Victor Hugo
Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.
— Victor Hugo
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
— Walt Whitman