Quotes About Defiance

You delight in making a fool of me," she accused in a furious whisper. "Not true," Caleb replied smoothly. "But I do like watching the sparks catch in your eyes when you realize you've just been had. May I walk you home, Miss Chalmers?" "Certainly not. In fact, I would deem it a great favor if you would simply stop bothering me, Major.

Good omens let you down. Bad ones give you something to fight against.

I say long live the bountiful personality. Long live the people who make people mad. Long live the ones who won't listen to sense. Long live the people who are forever getting warned, one of these times, you're going to go too far! Long live the fiery, the unguilty, the unhumble, the dazzling, the cheerful and the brave. Even if they don't live long, even if they look obnoxious or even stupid in a certain light, they're still wonderful and magnificent to me, and they're free free free.

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.