Seneca the Younger Quotes

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

Who can be forced has not learned how to die.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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.

You'll be free or die!

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Better to die on one's feet than live on one’s knees., Mejor morir a pie que vivir rodillas.

Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.