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Quotes About Defiance

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!
~ William Wallace
I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.
~ Hank Williams III
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
~ George Wald
Super villains and bad guys win in real life.
~ Colby Covington
If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.
~ Geert Wilders
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
~ Elizabeth I
I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
~ Katie McGrath
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
~ Pat Conroy
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
~ Gerard Way
A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.
~ Diane Warren
Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
~ Wendy O. Williams
When Harvey Weinstein threatened to sue me, it was like the scene in 'Harry Potter' where an invitation to Hogwarts is coming in through every window and fireplace and every opening in the house.
~ Ronan Farrow
If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
~ Douglas Booth
On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here.
~ Luke Harding
We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.
~ Dave Portnoy
Don't put wings on me; I am no angel.
~ Diego Costa
I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Texans will not be pushed around.
~ George P. Bush
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
~ Sam Houston
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
~ Willie Nelson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.
~ Joe Kennedy III
The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.
~ Clint Smith