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“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)
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“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
Clara Barton quotes (American Civil War Nurse, Founder of the American National Red Cross, 1821-1912)
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“What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes
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“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”
William Cobbett quotes (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine, English popular journalist, champion of traditional rural England against the Industrial Revolution, 1763-1835)

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“One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.”
Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)
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“The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. The strength of a strong man is a prideful thing, but the unfortunate thing in life is that strong men do not remain strong. And it is just as true of unions and labor organizations as is true of men and individuals. And whereas today the craft unions of this country may be able to stand upon their own feet and like mighty oaks stand before the gale, defy the lightning, yet the day may come when those organizations will not be able to withstand”


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“And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? / And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.”
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“Ancient person, for whom I All the flattering youth defy, Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold; But still continue as thou art, Ancient person of my heart.”
John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) quotes (English Poet, 1647-1680)

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defy synonyms: dare, hold, hold up, refuse, refused, refuses, Refusing, resist, resisted, resisting, resists, withstand, withstanding, withstood.

defy antonyms: applies, apply, applying.

See also: defied, defies, defying.

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