“Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.” AtheismVictoryPromisePositive AtheismDespiteInevitableBlissHeavenlySolaceSeductiveHypocritical Author:Jack Kevorkian
“I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.” FeelsTryingYearsHas BeensFactsTogetherNightLeftSexPiecesAliveViolenceVictoryHatredDespiteVulnerabilityTortureSurvivedBack TogetherParalyzedTogether AgainMutilationBack Together Again Author:Tori Amos
“Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.” WarGovernmentFailingMediaVictoryDespiteAfghanistanBin LadenGreat Victory Author:Michael Hastings
“Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.” CourageVictoryBraveryPraiseDefeatDespiteCowardicePraiseworthy Author:Mason Cooley
“Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak.” StrongVictoryWeakDespiteTemptation Author:Brendon Burchard
“When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept.” WantBelieveHeartYoungBreakMonthsCoupleVictoryHistoricalCampaignsDespiteBarackAfrican AmericanBrokeSignificanceColleaguesDroppingCoveringEighteenHistorical Significance Author:Bill Moyers
“I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.” SoulPastVictoryDrinkMurderSeriesDefeatDespiteDrunkThanksMy SoulTonightAgonyAmazedMadhousesSmall Victories Author:Charles Bukowski
“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)” LongFightingVictorySpeechEvidenceContraryDespiteReachingStubbornSomething BetterShirkBlind Optimism Author:Barack Obama
“The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!” DoeVictoryLessonsIntellectualTragedyBelieverDespiteMinoritiesCompanionFalsehoodSuperiorityHusseinHussain Author:Thomas Carlyle