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defiance
«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.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
| About:
Compassion,
God,
Love,
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
at one time, defiance, harm, holds, one time, religious person, suffers
«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.»
Author: Dick Cheney
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
confronted, deceit, defiance, gathering, resolutions
«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»
Author: Hannah Arendy
| About:
Authority,
Civilization
| Keywords:
accounted, decade, defiance, established, event, last decade, outstanding, phenomenon, secular, social event, wide
«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»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bid, defiance, for sure, involve, Just Cause, Just War, Long War, national, preserved, self respect, tranquillity
«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»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
Africans, apartheid, black and white, campaign, campaign of, decisive, defiance, ended, South, South African, South Africans
«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.»
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bid, Corporations, crush, defiance, moneyed, trial, warning
«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.»
«In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Defeat,
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
defiance, resolution