Quotes About Defiance

You can kill me but you cannot disguise the truth.

You can turn me into dust but you cannot suppress my voice of freedom.

Nothing tamed or broke her, nothing touched her, neither kindness, nor scorn, nor hatred, nor love. She had never thought of prayer. It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody's altar.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

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

I wanted to strip and dance naked in front of them, because maybe then I could have demolished the fake, slimy atmosphere they had created.

fight authority with authority

Non potevo andare avanti così, dovevo reagire per orgoglio, non potevo seguire alla lettera tutto quello che mi dicevano gli altri o farmi trasportare dal fiume senza nemmeno provare a nuotare controcorrente.

It helps to fight authority with authority

Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

È sempre più facile ottenere il perdono che il permesso

They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilisations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover." Metropolitan Police spokesperson

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Confrontation was a great idea – unless the odds were so stacked against you that it was pointless.

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.

Prudence dressed with her usual elegance and painted her face and eyes with almost more than her usual care. It was at once force of habit and a kind of defiance.

The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

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