Quotes About Defiance

Boundaries? What are those?

I'm not going to bow down to anybody, not going to back away from anybody.

I would rather stand for what I believe in than bow down and be loved.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

British people do not like being bossed around.

I like rules that are broken.

I had always broken the rules.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

I'm not going to be bullied into not doing what I think is right.

I'm blowin' all the bullies away.

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

I want you to tell me how bad I suck and how I'm going to get knocked out and how I've been lucky my whole career. That's fine. All day.

There is a song called 'I Refuse,' and I get a bit scolding, I suppose, in a way. But it all comes back to elements of hope, and in the case of that song, it's basically, 'Okay, you're trying to suck me into this world of negativity, and I'm not going to go there. I'm going to live my own life.'

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

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.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.