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#defiance

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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.


Hannah Arendt


#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.


Elizabeth I Tudor


#courage #death #defiance #dignity #good-governance

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.


Condoleezza Rice


#been #decade #defiance #every #gulf

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.


Condoleezza Rice


#better #clear #community #continue #defiance

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.


George R.R. Martin


#fear-of-death #death

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?


Courtney M. Privett


#freedom #slavery #freedom

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.


Françoise Mauriac


#divinity #god #human-nature #pain #nature

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.


Emiliano Zapata


#revolution #revolution

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.


Dick Cheney


#beyond #comes #confronted #danger #deceit

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


#day #defiance #enter #hour #lose






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