Quotes About Defiance

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

If his country should be robbed of her liberties, he should still not despair. The protest of the Right against the Fact persists forever.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

This is how one ought to see, I repeated yet again. And I might have added, These are the sort of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.

The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence.

All right then," said the savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Rozumie pan, to jest zakazane. Poniewa? jednak ja tutaj ustanawiam prawa, wi?c i ja mog? je ?ama?. Bezkarnie, panie Marks - doda? zwracaj?c si? do Bernarda - Czego pan, obawiam si?, nie mo?e czyni?. - Mustafa Mond, Nowy Wspania?y ?wiat

Ebbene, si disse il Selvaggio in tono di sfida io reclamo il diritto d'essere infelice

The key of joy is disobedience.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.

Novecento, tutto questo è assolutamente contrario al regolamento. Novecento smise di suonare. Era un ragazzino di poche parole e di grande capacità di apprendimento. Guardò con dolcezza il comandante e disse: In culo il regolamento.

Non ha mura, Timbuktu, perché da sempre pensano, laggiù, che la sua bellezza, da sola, fermerebbe qualsiasi nemico.

Who dares disturb my roses? Why did I say that

Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.

Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.

The more that people are in the wrong, she thought, the louder their protestations on being brought to book.

They might have pictures of skulls on the backs of their leather jackets, but in their case these were really pictures of their last X-ray rather than threats.

It is I who will beat her if she tries anything. I am a traditionally built lady, you know, and if there are any bad people who try to push me around—or to beat me—then I can sit on them very quickly. And if I do that, then they cannot breathe—all the air goes out of their lungs and they cry out, 'I am not

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back!