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
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity
Winston Churchill
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 Arendy
Those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles...should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.
Andrzej Gaska
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham J. Heschel
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.
Oliver Goldsmith
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
I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson