Defiance Quotes

  • Zus Bielski: [after Asael exits a hide out with 2 women] Asael! You've been busy?

    Asael Bielski: Shut up

  • Konstanty 'Koscik' Kozlowski: Why is it so fucking hard being friends with a Jew?

    Tuvia Bielski: Try being one.

  • Lazar: Halt, who goes there?

    Zus Bielski: We go here, Lazar. You only say 'halt, who goes there' when you don't know who goes there. We go there.

    Lazar: Oh. Sorry Zus.

  • Lazar: [turning around to face the camp] Halt who goes there!

    Tuvia Bielski: Lazar, I'm coming from the camp, you only say that to people going towards the camp! The danger is out there, not in here!

  • Asael Bielski: Nothing is impossible, what we all have done is impossible!

  • Shamon Haretz: Merciful God, we commit our friends - Ben Zion and Krensky - to You. We have no more prayers, no more tears; we have run out of blood. Choose another people. We have paid for each of Your commandments; we have covered every stone and field with ashes. Sanctify another land. Choose another people. Teach them the deeds and the prophesies. Grant us but one more blessing: take back the gift of our holiness. Amen.

  • Zus Bielski: We are the Bielski's and we WILL be back!

  • Viktor Panchenko: You are related to Bielski?

    Zus Bielski: I am Bielski.

  • Shamon Haretz: Yes. You annoy me, therefore I exist.

  • Tuvia Bielski: If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.

  • Tuvia Bielski: We're family. We have to stick together.

  • Tuvia Bielski: I thought you were dead.

    Shamon Haretz: I am at least half dead.

  • Tuvia Bielski: Our revenge is to live.

  • Tuvia Bielski: We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals.

  • Bella: Women need guns, too.

    Zus Bielski: What for?

    Bella: For... protection.

    Zus Bielski: Women have men for protection.

  • Tuvia Bielski: When you take food it is support. When we do, it is stealing.

  • Zus Bielski: What is it we are good for, Viktor? Dying.

  • Lilka Ticktin: I'm not afraid of anything, Tuvia. I'm not even afraid of you.

  • Zus Bielski: [after a stranger enters the camp] How did you get past Lazar?

    Ben Zion Gulkowitz: Who?

    Zus Bielski: [stalking past him, mumbling] Fucking shit.