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Source: Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

“What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?”

Ifs Cutting Alive Strings What If Defiance Puppets Strength Of Will

Author:Barry Lyga

“I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.”

Joy Defiance

Author:Andre Gide

“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”

Happiness Faces Joy Fear Comedy Anxiety Laughter Contempt Creeps Defiance Inhale

Author:Will Durst

“All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.”

“The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.”

“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.”

Shows Danger Deceit Resolve Resolution Gathering Hype Defiance There Comes A Time

Author:Dick Cheney

“Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.”

“From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."”

“My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.”

Thinking Self Done Names Too Much Crazy Mad Vocation Defiance

Author:Anne Rice

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”

“I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min”

Body Found Depends Limits Wit Boundaries Impression Heat Defiance Aptitude Furnaces Crucible

Author:Samuel Johnson

“You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.”

Light Science Night Learning Teaching Scientist Sacred Experiments Spite Decline Motto Reliance Defiance Day And Night Philistines

Book:103 lyrics

Source: 103 lyrics

“American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series

“To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.”

Humans Looks Would Be Age Courses Numbers Events Human Nature Harmony Independent Neighborhood Uniforms Sovereignty Defiance Disregard Continuation

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC....The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium...which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'”

Earth Climate Climate Change Decades Global Warming Predictions Temperature Defiance Millennium

Author:Richard Keen

“We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.”

War Fighting Strong Principles International Antiwar Arbitrary Crushed Nationality Defiance Good Faith

Author:H. H. Asquith

“The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.”

Team Defiance

Author:Stephanie Leonidas

“Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.”

Ifs Trying Humans May Long Death Dies Freedom Human Beings Animal Dying Victory Jew Revenge Chosen Resistance Each Day Vengeance Defiance World War 2 Partisans Hunted Live Free

Author:Tuvia Bielski

“Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.”

Beautiful Overwhelming Rebel Defiance Glorify

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.”

Earth Quality Rich Environmental Abundance Yield Defiance Drought

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.”

World Mind Heart Dies Causes Perfect Liberty Unions Slave Preservation Defiance Hazards Firmness Freeman Perseverence

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one.”

Ifs Has Beens Done Government Can Do Known Principles Constitution Fundamentals Congress Welfare Characteristics Adopted Defiance Discretion Bidding General Welfare

Book:1769-1793

Source: 1769-1793

“I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.”

World Want Common Add Common Sense Nevertheless Defiance

Author:Rene Magritte

“The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life, you need to follow where it leads...in defiance of all things conventional perhaps. And of course it has its price. You have to know that going in. But the price you pay, in my opinion, is not worth the time of day to think about. It is so important not to knee pad around the world. You should never bow down to anything but those you love and respect. Ever for anything.”

“To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.”

World Dream Greater Garden Independence Plant Gardening Defiance

Book:A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

Source: A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

“Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.”

“I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.”

Political Birth Corporations Crush Defiance Aristocracy Monetary System Aristocratic Corporatism Plutocracy Multinational Corporations Incorporation

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826

“A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.”

Care Lasts Hate Fall Fear Sound Animal Dying Dog Shots Surrender Defiance Cornered

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

“All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.”

Ifs Form Law Common Opinion Practice Example Ought Judgment Advantage Angry Appeals Rejection Arrogance Ridicule Violation Defiance Back Again Censure Derision Hoot

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson...

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson...

“It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

“Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.”

Action Law Social Moral Economic Direct Resistance Anarchy Restriction Anarchism Defiance Direct Action

Author:Emma Goldman

“But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.”

Knows World Ideas Expression Depends Integrity Highest Standing Safety Defiance Saying No No Friends Inhumane

Author:Gabrielle Giffords

“To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

“There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.”

People Ifs May Country Spirit Hours Loses Week Supreme Bars Tyranny Charm Defiance Iron Lady Roughness Supreme Confidence

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.”

Men Looks Easy Difficult Sides Violence Judgment Defiance Acts Of Violence Docile

Book:Survival In Auschwitz

Source: Survival In Auschwitz

“What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.”

Ifs Men Firsts Artist Fall Poet Return Garden Insane Painter Explanation Defiance Assertion Eden Garden Of Eden

Book:Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani

Source: Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani

“Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.”

Statements Ties Bows Defiance Bow Tie

Author:Rick Kaplan

“For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.”

Lying Given Clear Written Holy Guilt Interpretation Arbitrary Heresy Defiance Risen Meanings Of Words

Author:Hilary of Poitiers

“I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.”

Ifs World Firsts Has Beens Made America Differences Modern Election Conservative Modern World Defiance Hamsters General Elections

Book:The political animal: an anatomy

Source: The political animal: an anatomy

“When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.”

Tradition Something New Defiance New You

Author:Steven Strogatz

“A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.”

Knows Able Challenges Behinds Position Willing Safe Degrees Devices Professors Scholar Invited Rivals Defiance Inviting Immunity Gauntlet

Author:Hugh Nibley

“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”

Real Faces Suffering Evil Ought Surrender Defiance Cringe

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Good work is always done in defiance of management.”

Done Design Management Software Good Work Defiance Software Design

Author:Bob Woodward

“Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.”

Three President Grief Emotion Worst Stage Acceptance Anger Following Terrorist Confusion Soil Shock Defiance Terrorist Attacks President George W Bush Sept 11 Raw Emotion

Author:Ron Fournier

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”

Has Beens Made Hands Running Seasons Contrary Modernity Defiance

Author:Bill Buford

“Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.”

“Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.”

Different War Government Memories Flower Politician Deserve Betrayal Graves Usual Dedication Preparing Memorial Defiance Memorial Day Hypocritical Contractor

Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.”

Years Has Beens Today Fall Found Gone Virtue Magic Revolution Thousand Ten Years Ago Regimes Thousand Years Defiance

Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

“What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of one’s private property was a sacred right, to a day when the so-called property “owner” faces a hovering hoard of taxmen and regulators threatening to lien, foreclose, and “go to auction” at the first sign of private defiance of their collective will ... a relationship between government and private property rights which my dictionary defines as “fascism.””

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