Quotes About Defiance

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.

Don't tread on me.

American by Birth. Rebel by Choice.

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

They are of those that rebel against the light.

A stubborn and rebellious generation.

Jimmie crack corn and I don't care,Old Massa's gone away.

When law can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow, An' when the leaves in summer time their color dare not show, Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen; But till that day, plaise God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green.

A stiffnecked people.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].

"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.

What would the fearsome Lou Reed insist on? Boys? Girls? Drugs? No, kielbasa.

Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.

Marie-Laure sits among them, wondering who will cave, who will tattle, who will be the bravest. Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.

For as long as we have been a species, whether with medicine or technology, by gathering power, by embarking on journeys, or by telling stories, we humans have tried to defeat death. None of us ever has.

The general was sufficiently impressed by the young man to ask him to go back to Italy with him. His back to the wall, Atticus for once in his life refused to do a powerful man's bidding. "No, please, I beg you," he replied. "I left Italy to avoid fighting you alongside those you want to lead me against." Sulla liked his candor and let the matter drop.

For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.

Varius refused to obey his orders and, acting under the authority of Augustus, published the epic.

who set on fire all the siege equipment and destroyed it.

Sanford, this story that my son appears to have instructed you to tell me features a young man who gets shot in the head nine times at close range with a .38 pistol, once in the chest at close range with a .22 rifle, then bashed over the head by you with the ax two or maybe three times, but even then he was still alive and required a final blow from Stewart. And that was also a blow to the head with the ax. At which point this unfortunate fellow finally decided that this world was not for him.

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.