Defiance

QUOTES

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
 Walt Whitman
 

And yet… it moves.
 Galileo.
 

The defiance of established authority… as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
 Hannah Arendt
 

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
 Jane Grey Swisshelm
 

…nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.
 Thomas Mann
 1912

Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.
 Benjamin Disraeli
 

I have not yet begun to fight.
 John Paul Jones
 

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
 Winston Churchill
 

What though the field be lost?All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome? 
 John Milton
 Paradise Lost,

See Also Cooperation

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