Quotes About Defiance

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

Yes, he knew that we was withdrawing from everything: not merely from human beings. A moment more and everything will have lost its meaning, and that table and the cup, and the chair to which he clings, all the near and the commonplace, will have become unintelligible, strange and heavy. So he sat there and waited until it should have happened. And defended himself no longer.

I offer resistance, although I know that my heart has already been ripped out and I could not go on living even if my torturers were to leave me alone now.

Tell them to teach them that when they call you nigger to make a rhyme with trigger it makes the gun backfire

Even let them eat hummingbirds' wings and tell you it's too good for you.—Grits and greens don't turn to ashes in anybody's mouth—how about it, Rev. Eatmore?

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust right open.

I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people's law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time.

You can't ever have my books.

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

So few want to be rebels anymore.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back. Starve. Starve. Starve.

Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.

We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.