Quotes About Defiance

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

As soon as he stopped, I poked him with my umbrella and said 'f— you!' and got out real fast.

Those who can walk will walk. Protest or not—all will walk. Those who can't walk—we will shoot.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they're definitely knocking on the wrong door.

I could still box your ears." "Nonsense," he scoffed. "You couldn't reach that high.

You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids.

We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the acceptance of our dusky and dappled side, and also in defiance.

Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition

She was a remarkable woman and her courage must be immense to have defied her family and traveled virtually alone

To be beaten was one thing, to surrender was another—and intolerable.

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.

What did law, or even justice, matter in the face of

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.