Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

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.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Islam … is a story of the struggle between reason and belief, between consent and authoritarianism, between resistance to tyranny and tyrants.

'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.

I wanted to write something that reflected the violence and horror of the world, but I also wanted to reflect the way people fight to survive, even when society wants to crush them.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?