Quotes About Defiance

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Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,

What is> forbidden had better be done pretty quickly.

walk in the middle of the street. At two in

The old Spanish revolutionary slogan, 'un pueblo unido jamás será vencido' ('a people, united, will never be defeated') applies less to the divided countries of the continent than to almost any other.

The best bosses find the sweet spot between acting like spineless wimps who always do just as they are told (no matter how absurd) versus insubordinate rabble-rousers who challenge and ignore every order and standard operating procedure. Good bosses try to cooperate with superiors and do what is best for their organizations, but they realize that defiance can be required to protect their people and themselves – and sometimes is even ultimately appreciated by superiors.

better to shoot the messenger than to learn about—and fix—the problems. In contrast to such constructive defiance, I know bosses who employ the opposite strategy to undermine and drive out incompetent superiors. One called it "malicious compliance," following idiotic orders from

On 19 July 1956, Secretary of State Dulles abruptly announced that the United States was rescinding its Aswan Dam financing offer. 'May you choke to death on your fury', a defiant Nasser railed at the United States. World Bank President Eugene Black warned Dulles that 'all hell might break loose'.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

every decent man confronted by a totalitarian regime ought to have the pluck to commit high treason.

You sick fuck. Tear my pants off, prick. See what I got. I'll knock your fucking teeth out with my swinging dick! Last chance... you force yourself into that woman... and I'll force this knife into your dick hole!

You of the almighty zap, Zeusifer, loose and zany, let me sizzle on your throne for maybe forty-eight seconds; I've had enough of your poetry crap, just give me the last word of this poem.

It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.

You clobber Death when he's breathing in your ear and see how you feel about the club.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.

If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make it easy, but not so much they grew tired of you.

Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd. He was a man who did his own thinking and detested the words, "We have to do it this way because that's the way everyone else does it." He also hated the word "can't." If you wanted him to do something, just say, "I don't think you can do it.

The Alamo is a great story of brave people who chose to fight, knowing there was no hope of success. They chose to die instead of surrendering.

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock. (In The Court Of The Dragon)

Being snubbed added to Goldblatt's fury. "Your impudence is astounding," he growled.

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.