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Quotes About Defiance

at him. No sir!
~ Judy Blume
Forget it . . . I'm never
~ Judy Blume
So what if she ordered an ice cream soda before lunch? Who was going to tell her she couldn't have exactly what she wanted?
~ Judy Blume
She accused me of being a political lesbian, not a biological one, and when I refused to give up men she got so pissed she cut my panties into little pieces and tossed them out the window
~ Judy Blume
But do not be servile; never be a flunkey; and above all things avoid the intellectual prostitution which is the vice of our times in many trades and most professions. I mean by this the being a mere hired apologist for and defender of immorality, graft, dishonesty, or vice in any form. The intellectual prostitute may rise in the service, but he is a lost soul.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The voyou is the man who escapes everything that normally holds back other men: studies, family, civic duties, religious practices. The voyou is the adventurer of space, of impassable roads, of the immense freedom of cities and fields.
~ Wallace Fowlie
There is something about all beards that is like the gesture of thumbing the nose. Thank you very much. Up yours.
~ Wallace Stegner
Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they.
~ Wallace Stegner
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
~ Walt Whitman
Resist much, obey little.
~ Walt Whitman
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
~ Walter Bagehot
The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot
The greatest plesure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
~ Walter Bagehot
El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.
~ Walter Bagehot
I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.
~ Walter Brueggemann
God has defied the purity laws! In doing so the God of the trance has violated Israel's definition of chosenness. All of the old certitudes about chosenness are coming unglued. There is no distinction between pure and impure, clean and unclean. So is there no distinction any longer between chosen and unchosen?
~ Walter Brueggemann
Thus I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Gabriel flashed him the one-fingered Mudra of Contempt.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Wenn es sein muss, trete ich auch Zwerge!
~ Walter Moers
En el contexto civilizado, la estrategia de sumisión trae más problemas que ventajas. El sumiso desconoce sus derechos personales y, por lo tanto, no los defiende ni los ejerce. Se acurruca, se entrega, se agacha, pero a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo animal, aquí el opositor no perdona: "Al caído, caerle".
~ Walter Riso
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
~ Walter Rodney