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prasanna
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:43 am |
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Defiance quotes
“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.”
Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
“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 (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972)
“No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.”
Hitopadesa
“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 David Eisenhower (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)
“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
“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity”
Winston Churchill (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
“Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power”
George Washington (American commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775-83) and subsequently 1st US President (1789-97), 1732-1799)
“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 ( Poet, 1819-1892)
“Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organizatio”
Nelson Mandela (South African Statesman First democratically elected State President of South Africa (1994), 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace, b.1918)
“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye
I see the Lords of human kind pass by.”
zeretia
Oliver Goldsmith (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)
“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 (American 46th US Vice President under George W. Bush since 2001. b.1941)
“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 (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)[/b]
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