Quotes with defiance

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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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  • Winston Churchill Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Hitopadesa 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
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Hannah Arendt 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 Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Walt Whitman 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
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel 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.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Winston Churchill In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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