Quotes About Defiance

Illegitimi non carborundum. "Don't let the bastards grind you down.

force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others. That's how people with brains a

We associate the willingness to risk great failure and the ability to climb back from catastrophe with courage, but in this, we are wrong. That is the lesson of Taleb and Niederhoffer, and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.

What they did is not "right," just as it is not "right" to send children up against police dogs. But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside. David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others.

I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead.

Success is getting through defiance, adversity and difficulties, feeling hopeless and defeated but never giving up until you achieve your goal

You must thrive to flood the nose and mouth of those who hate you and can't wait to see you fail.

Disrespecting disrespect is not disrespect

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

And so for me the expression "ordinary child" became a term of utter contempt. It was better to grow up to be a stray dog, better to be a cripple or a mental retard, better to be a girl even, provided I didn't become an "ordinary child" like the rest of them, provided I could go on being "so very special!" or "really out of the ordinary!

At a certain point, it would seem, you have to stop caring, and stop trying to protect what someone else is set to destroy.

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.

Podrán callarnos, pero no pueden impedir que tengamos nuestras propias opiniones.

Rebellions of all kinds attract to their activities weaklings who rebel because they cannot master, destroy because they cannot create.

I know my defects. I don't need you to take that stand-offish and unsympathetic tone. I get enough of that from the men who can't bully me into loving them, or obeying them

There is a fantastic courage in this, to live without laws, without fetters, without thought of consequences.

Rebellion is a negative form of living.

After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

But, matters now going as they seemed to be, that life would probably not be long. Best spend it doing all I could to withstand the Shadow.

Nous avons dit non. (...) Il y a une réponse à notre non. Un fusil semi-automatique est une réponse. Il y a aussi des poignards. Ce que nous vivons n'est pas une conversation plaisante. sur la tuerie de Montréal

They don't act like human beings and they're pretty proud of it so there's no point in pretending they are; though you want to - pretend.