Quotes About Defiance

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.

What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

His wide mouth was twisted into a pleasant sneer, and the scar of the inkvine whip slashed across his jawline seemed to move with a life of its own.

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

If 'tis a sin, I don't give a Fiddler's fart!

Mikey's father, champion of all pint drinkers, is like my uncle Pa Keating, he doesn't give a fiddler's fart what the world says and that's the way I'd like to be myself.

Tis' your life, make your own decisions and to hell with the begrudgers, Frankie.

Give them nothing, but take from them everything.

Hydarnes: When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun! Leonidas: Good; then we will fight in the shade.

Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves

I'll cut him in two—with the whip," he shouted. "I will, I will, I say I will, for a fact. He wouldn't fight, hey? I'll give um all the fight he wants, nasty, mangy cur. If he won't fight he won't eat. I'm going to get the butcher's bull pup and I'll put um both in a bag and shake um up. I will, for a fact, and I guess Alec will fight. Come along, Mister Grannis," and he took the old Englishman away.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

You too have weapons.

But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat.

Don't look at him! he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way

If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago.

Notei que se fujo dos outros não é para poder viver em paz, mas para poder morrer em paz. Mas agora vou defender-me.

Dagegen kann ich jeden Augenblick beweisen, daß meine Erziehung einen anderen Menschen aus mir machen wollte als den, der ich geworden bin. Den Schaden also, den mir meine Erzieher nach ihrer Absicht hätten zufügen können, den mache ich ihnen zum Vorwurf, verlange aus ihren Händen den Menschen, der ich jetzt bin, und da sie ihn mir nicht geben können, mache ich ihnen aus Vorwurf und Lachen ein Trommelschlagen bis in die jenseitige Welt hinein. Doch

Evening in the garden of the Askanischer Hof. Ate rice a la Trautmannsdorf and a peach. A man drinking wine watched my attempts to cut the unripe little peach with my knife. I couldn't. Stricken with shame under the old man's eyes, I let the peach go completely and ten times leafed through Die Fliegenden Blatter. I waited to see if he wouldn't at last turn away. Finally I collected all my strength and in defiance of him bit into the completely juiceless and expensive peach.

Toute littérature est assaut contre la frontière.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I will not be triumphed over.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.