Jim Butcher Quotes

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

I am as fearless as the Rani of Jhansi and I will fight against all those people who are dragging me in controversy.

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

I stand up to people.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

I have not yet begun to fight!