Defiant to the End/Quotes

Here's a good tactic to put the evil mastermind off side. When you've been captured are about to be subjected to inevitable the megalomaniacal evil villain monologue, taunt the villain! Rattle off a list of how incompetent and stupid he is, and how all his plans are pathetic, and how his underlings are ripping off his evil villain employee pension plan behind his back.
Even better if you can keep this rant up for a good five minutes without letting the villain get a word in edgeways. We guarantee that your GM will be impressed with your roleplaying skills.

—David Morgan-Mar, Darths and Droids, Ep. 327

There will be times when a officer will find the limitless hosts of the enemies of man arrayed against him, when all hopes for victory fade away to leave them confronted with the bitter truth of their own mortality. Perhaps it could have been avoided, but perhaps not, know that this galaxy despises man and his works, and in such a dark place and dark time, the only victory possible is over one's own despair. The commander must reach deep into his own soul, and the souls of his men, and find the most terrible and potent weapon in his arsenal - devotion to the Emperor, defiance unto death, face the enemy in their multitude with fire in your heart and a prayer on your lips! Your deaths are your own, and thus do you deny the enemy his victory.

—The Tactica Imperialis, Warhammer 40,000

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

—Claude McKay, "If We Must Die"

Driven mad by Caesar's victory at Hoover Dam, and unable to escape his memories, Boone staged a suicide mission against the Legate. Fighting as he wished he would've fought on the day of his wife's death, he brought down scores of Legionaries before being caught. Before his crucifixion, he was brought before the Legate, who expressed his admiration for Boone's reckless abandon. Boone spat tobacco in his eye, for all of Caesar's armies to see.

—One possible ending for Craig Boone, Fallout: New Vegas

Syrzan, Illitilich: What an idiot you were to return. You knew you were no match for me.
Pharaun Mizzrym: Stop preening. You look ridiculous. This isn't your pathetic dream world. This is reality, where I'm a prince of a great city and you're just a sort of mollusk, and a dead, putrid one at that.

— Dissolution by Richard Lee Byers

We are not your slaves.

—Rila before detonating a bomb, Mass Effect 3