Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness."
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Defiance
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Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel."
Harper Lee
Novelist
"Mutual defiance made them alike."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny."
Andre Gide
Novelist
"I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance."
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"In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better."
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"I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job"
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"... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences."
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"It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open."
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"The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance."
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