quotes about Defiance
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As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
-- Anthony CroslandSource : Speech in the House of Commons, November 6, 1974.
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Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
-- David MuraSource : David Mura (2010). “Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity”, p.28, Anchor
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Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
-- Edward Abbey -
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!
-- Ellen Hopkins -
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... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
-- George Eliot -
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
-- Julien BendaSource : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.146, Transaction Publishers
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In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
-- Mark Rowlands -
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us....
-- Mark Rowlands -
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
-- Seamus Heaney -
The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.
-- Stephanie LeonidasSource : "Stephanie Leonidas Talks DEFIANCE, What Drew Her to the Character, Her Knife Training, The Make-Up Process, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 20, 2013.
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
-- Steven Strogatz -
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
-- Vladimir NabokovSource : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Invitation to a beheading: a novel”, Putnam Adult