#defiance

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The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.


Howard Zinn


#change #defiance #history #opposition #self-assurance

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


George R.R. Martin


#fear-of-death #death

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.


Bertrand Russell


#defiance #fearlessness #free-thinker #freedom #freedom-of-thought

I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’t remind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn’t seem possible. Maybe a possessed banana. I’d seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. But I’ll bet it’s out there somewhere.


Lili St. Crow


#humor #strange-angels #humor

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.


José Rizal


#humor #humor

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

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.


Charlotte Brontë


#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

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


Emiliano Zapata


#revolution #revolution

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.


Robert Fanney


#control #defiance #dominance #rebellion #rebellion

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#basic #basic rights #carrying #court #defiance