Quotes About Defiance

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?

I don't have to defend what I do for a job. Who cares what people say? If people don't see the humor in it, too bad.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.