Quotes About Defiance

Many said I am not a Baloch and I have nothing to do with the community; in general, the feeling is that I am doing everything to bring shame to Pakistan. But I will not stop.

I think rock should always stay a little bit outside the pale; I think it should remain a little bit dangerous - a little bit ornery, as the Americans say.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.

Yani hastal?k çok defa kaderin aksiliklerine kar?? ruhun ve onun pe?inden vücudun isyan?d?r.

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

I can't be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.

Richard decided to play a card he'd had up his sleeve all morning, and he raised his large hand high, his face filled with defiance and malicious intent. He showed the spectators the perfect pentagram he had inked on his palm. Under it was the number 666, the Book of Revelation's number of "the beast," i.e., Satan.

When Julian, who was big for his age, was fourteen, he stood up to his father, pulled the belt from his hand, and threw it on the ground. "You are not beating me anymore!" he proclaimed defiantly. This was a crime punishable by death in Camargo, Mexico, in 1944. A son did not defy his father. There were customs and regulations that had to be adhered to, but after that day, Jose Ramirez and his father did not beat Julian anymore.

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;They took the spear—but left the shield.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

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Why should I let the toad workSquat on my life?Can't I use my wit as a pitchforkAnd drive the brute off?

When her gun was empty she put it down and killed the last man with a typewriter, the carriage-return bell jingling cheerfully while she smashed in his skull.

T'insegneranno a non splendere. E tu splendi, invece.

When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face.